Robbie Coburn is a poet based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, Rain Season (2013), and The Other Flesh (2019). Ghost Poetry, a new poetry collection, is forthcoming from Upswell Publishing in 2024. He has also published a number of chapbooks. Robert Adamson wrote that Coburn’s poems “come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence”. His first published poem appeared in anarchist poet Pi O’s literary journal Unusual Work when he was 17 years old. His poems have been published in Poetry, Expat, Meanjin, Island, Westerly, and elsewhere, and anthologised in books including Writing to the Wire (UWA Publishing, 2016) and To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018). Additionally, Coburn’s haiku has been published widely, including in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest and Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America. His work was selected for inclusion in a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018, edited by Jim Kacian. Coburn has given featured readings at The Wheeler Centre and La Mama Poetica and has appeared as a guest at literary festivals such as the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Canberra Writers Festival, Newcastle Writers Festival and Perth Poetry Festival. Born in June 1994, Coburn grew up on his family’s farm in Woodstock, Victoria. He began writing poetry at the age of 14, influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. He has severe depression, and has struggled with alcoholism and self-harm, topics frequently explored in his work. In 2021, Coburn published "Home for the Rodeo", an essay detailing these struggles, and his love of the sport of rodeo.