Kris Hemensley: Contents page

Kris Hemensley (b.1946) was born on the Isle of Wight, and came to Australia when he was twenty. He soon became a driving force in the Melbourne literary world, becoming involved in poetry workshops at La Mama, editing the roneod magazines Our Glass, The Ear in a Wheatfield, and many others, writing detailed and informative reviews and commentary on Australian and international poetry and arguing for a forward-looking, international and experimentalist approach. He has published more than twenty books of poetry, prose and writing for children, and has written many experimental plays. He manages Collected Works bookshop in Melbourne.