Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1949 and now lives in England. He has published numerous books of poems, the most recent being The Passenger, (UQP, 2006), Let’s Get Lost (with Pam Brown and Ken Bolton, Sydney, Vagabond, 2005), Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003, (Exeter, Shearsman, 2005), and Mangroves (UQP, 2003). Shearsman have also republished his 1987 documentary poem The Ash Range (2005). His poems and articles have appeared in many anthologies and in various journals in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and America. He has read at many venues including the Menzies Centre, King’s College, London, December 2006; the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, April 2006; the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre at the University of Auckland, March 2006; the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, 1992; and on an Australia Council sponsored tour of the USA and Canada in 1987.