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Spur
Spur is the latest chapbook of poetry by Robbie Coburn Australian poet and author of And I Could Not Have Hurt You, which was on Dennis Cooper’s Mine For Yours: Favorites of 2023 list.
24 pages, Paperback
Published August 5, 2025
About the author
Robbie Coburn
34 books78 followersRobbie 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, Hobart, Meanjin, Island, and Westerly, and in anthologies including Wingspan: A Festschrift for Robert Adamson (Puncher & Wattmann, 2026), Anxiety vol. 2 (Filthy Loot, 2025), Shadows & Verse (edited by Jonathan Maberry, WordFire, 2024), Oystercatcher One (Five Islands Press, 2024), To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018) and Writing to the Wire (UWAP, 2016).
A lifelong comic book fan, his poetry appeared in issue #2025 of The Phantom (Frew, 2026), an edition celebrating 90 years of the comic’s publication.
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 volunteers at The Dax Centre assisting with maintaining their poetry collection.
He grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria and lives in Melbourne.
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, Hobart, Meanjin, Island, and Westerly, and in anthologies including Wingspan: A Festschrift for Robert Adamson (Puncher & Wattmann, 2026), Anxiety vol. 2 (Filthy Loot, 2025), Shadows & Verse (edited by Jonathan Maberry, WordFire, 2024), Oystercatcher One (Five Islands Press, 2024), To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018) and Writing to the Wire (UWAP, 2016).
A lifelong comic book fan, his poetry appeared in issue #2025 of The Phantom (Frew, 2026), an edition celebrating 90 years of the comic’s publication.
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 volunteers at The Dax Centre assisting with maintaining their poetry collection.
He grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria and lives in Melbourne.
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