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Andrew Taylor (b.1940) was born in Warnambool, Victoria, and studied at Melbourne University. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, the libretti of two operas and, with Beate Josephi, translator of an anthology of German and Austrian women’s poetry. He was regional winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1986, and won the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for poetry in 1995. He is a Member of the Order of Australia and was until recently Professor of English at Edith Cowan University. In his Collected Poems (Salt Publications, Cambridge UK, 2004) he gathers together all of his published poetry from the last 35 years, and adds to this a substantial body of new unpublished material.