Robbie Coburn
ABOUT
Robbie Coburn
Robbie Coburn is a contemporary Australian poet. His poems have been published widely in magazines and anthologies, and his books include Ghost Poetry (2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (2023), and The Other Flesh (2019). 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. His latest book, The Foal in the Wire, was published in 2025.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.