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Robert Gray


Born
in Port Macquarie, Australia
February 23, 1945

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Robert William Geoffrey Gray (born 23 February 1945) is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic. He has been described as 'an Imagist without a rival in the English speaking world' and 'one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English'.

Gray was born in Port Macquarie, grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops. His first book of poems, Creekwater Journal, was published in 1973.

As a poet Gray is most notable for his keen visual imagery and intensely observed landscapes. His wide reading in and experience of East Asian cultures and thei
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Average rating: 3.54 · 167 ratings · 33 reviews · 23 distinct worksSimilar authors
Coast Road: Selected Poems

3.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Creekwater journal

4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions
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The Land I Came Through Last

3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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New and selected poems

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Grass script: selected earl...

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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Cumulus: Collected Poems

3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012
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Australian Poetry in the Tw...

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Selected poems

2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
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Afterimages

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002
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New Selected Poems

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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