Nathan Curnow

Nathan Curnow lives in Ballarat, and writes poetry, plays, and short fiction.  His work features in Best Australian Poems 2008 and 2010 (Black Inc.) and has won a number of awards including the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize.  His book The Ghost Poetry Project (Puncher and Wattmann) was named by Cate Kennedy as a ‘best read’ of 2009 and his most recent collection, RADAR (Walleah Press, 2012), is a joint collection with poet Kevin Brophy.  He is a past editor of Going Down Swinging and has recently been described by Martin Duwell as ‘a sort of poetic equivalent of Louis Theroux’.  As a spoken-word performer he has featured at many festivals across the country and been heard widely on ABC, Triple J, and Radio NZ.