Sarah Holland-Batt is an award-winning poet, editor and critic. Her books have received a number of Australia’s leading literary awards, including the Stella Prize for her most recent book, The Jaguar, and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry for her second volume, The Hazards. She is also the author of a book of essays on contemporary Australian poetry, Fishing for Lightning, collecting her poetry columns written for The Australian. She is presently Professor of Creative Writing at QUT.
Paul Kane is Professor Emeritus at Vassar College. He has published eight collections of poems and a dozen other books. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bogliasco Foundation. He holds an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University and was awarded the Order of Australia in 2022. He divides his time between upstate New York and rural Victoria.
Peter Rose has been Editor and CEO of Australian Book Review since 2001. His first poetry collection was The House of Vitriol (1990). Crimson Crop (2012) won a Queensland Award (Judith Wright Calanthe Award) and was shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. In November 2024, Pitt Street Poetry will publish his seventh collection, Attention Please!