Laurie Duggan grew up in Melbourne and has subsequently lived in Sydney and Brisbane. He moved to the UK in 2006 to Faversham, Kent, and is a regular reader on the London poetry circuit. Over the years he has taught in the areas of Art History and Cultural Studies and worked as a screenwriter, art critic and poetry editor. He has published twenty or so books of poems plus a critical work, Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939 (UQP, 2001). His blog is at: graveneymarsh.blogspot.com