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Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and young adult author. His debut YA verse novel The Foal in the Wire (Lothian Children’s Books, 2025) was a CBCA 2026 Notable Book and a finalist for the Young Adult Indie Book Award and the Ena Noёl Award. His second work for young adults, Exile, is forthcoming.

He has published several collections of poetry including And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023), which was included on Dennis Cooper’s Mine For Yours: Favorites of 2023 list, Ghost Poetry (Upswell, 2024) and The Other Flesh (UWAP, 2019). He has also published a number of chapbooks and zines, most recently Spur (Filthy Loot, 2025).

Coburn’s poems have appeared in many literary journals including Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, Star*Line,
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Average rating: 4.47 · 322 ratings · 59 reviews · 34 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Foal in the Wire

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Ghost Poetry

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And I Could Not Have Hurt You

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The Other Flesh

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Rain Season

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Blinding Narcissus

4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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Human Batteries

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Womb: A Poem in Dramatic Form

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Mad Songs

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“All distance finds loneliness in time.”
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“If I am ever to live, truly live, it will be for the second time inside a book.”
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“My love of literature has always sustained me; more than alcohol, drugs, psychiatry and medication ever have or will.”
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