Robbie Coburn

Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire (Lothian/Hachette Australia, 2025).

His poetry collections are Ghost Poetry (Upswell, 2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023), The Other Flesh (UWAP, 2019) and Rain Season (Picaro Press, 2013). He has also published a number of chapbooks and zines.

His poems have been published widely in Australian and overseas journals including Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, Expat, Apocalypse Confidential, Feral Dove, Meanjin, Island and Westerly, and anthologised in books including Oystercatcher One (5 Islands Press, 2024), In Your Hands (Red Room Poetry, 2020), To End All Wars (Puncher and Wattmann, 2018) and Writing to the Wire (UWAP, 2016).

He has been featured at The Wheeler Centre and La Mama Poetica, appeared as a guest at literary festivals including the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Canberra Writers Festival, Newcastle Writers Festival and Perth Poetry Festival, and run poetry workshops for youth mental health organisation Headspace.

He grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria and now lives in Melbourne.