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Over the next few weeks, “Tall Poppies: The Podcast,” will feature a series of 10 minute excerpts from archived interviews with renowned Australians. We are calling these, Tall Poppies Postcards. The first features the Australian poet, Robert Gray, who hails from the Australian state of New South Wales. Robert is an outstanding landscape poet and alongside Les Murray, has been one of the most significant Australian poets of the last decades. Indeed, the late Les Murray said of Robert Gray, “ He has a remarkable eye, and the verbal felicity, which must accompany such an eye.”

Robert has been a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several schools and universities throughout Australia. He has also edited various poetry anthologies and the journals of the painter, John Olsen. Robert’s work. He has been awarded many of the most-respected Australian literary prizes, including the New South Wales Premier’s Poetry Award, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry and the Patrick White Award.

Many of Robert Gray’s poems have been translated into German.