John Mateer

John Mateer has published books of poems in Australia, Austria, Portugal and the UK, and smaller collections in South Africa, Indonesia, Japan and Macau. World Literature Today has called him ‘the most recent reincarnation of the international poet’.

Mateer has been a guest speaker at writing festivals around the world.

Books from this author

The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry
The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009

Awards

NSW Premier’s Literary Award (Shortlisted 2013)
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Shortlisted 2013)
Prime Minister’s Literary Award (Shortlisted 2013)
Centenary Medal (2003)
Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry (Winner 2001)