Twice winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Philip Salom is originally from WA but has lived in Melbourne for the last 10 years. His books include the internationally acclaimed Sky Poems and New and Selected Poems, A Cretive Life and Feeding the Ghost. His most recent book is The Well Mouth, a collection of voices from the underworld. His novels are Toccata and Rain (2005) and Playback (re-printed 2003). He has read as a guest writer in America, Canada, Britain, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Singapore and New Zealand. He was a recent recipient (2006/2007) of an Australia Council major Writer’s Fellowship.

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