Spur

by Robbie Coburn

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 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 was shortlisted for the Young Adult Indie Book Award and the Ena Noёl Award.

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 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).

He grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria and lives in Melbourne.