Robert Gray

Biography

Robert Gray has worked mainly as a journalist and a buyer in bookshops. He has published eight volumes of poetry, numerous revised versions of his Selected Poems, and a memoir. His Collected Poems will appear in Australia later this year.

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POETRY / Summer 2011

Echoes

By Robert Gray

A yacht lies down
in my window, on the harbour
the dusk has come.

POETRY / Summer 2011

Classifying the Animals

By Robert Gray

There are those that in the distance seem a swarm of gnats
those that with their barking try to rally us in a campaign against the stars
those that torment their prey

POETRY / Summer 2011

Wing-Beat

By Robert Gray

In some last inventory, I’ll have lost a season,
through the occlusion
of summer by another hemisphere.