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Robert Wood is a poet. He is interested in dream, enlightenment, nature, suburbs and philosophy. Robert is a Malayali with connections to the East Indian Ocean. He lives on Noongar country in Australia.

Robert is currently the Creative Director of the Centre for Stories and the Chair of PEN Perth. His previous postions include: Endeavour Research Fellow, Columbia University; Benjamin Franklin Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; Faculty, The School of Life; Commissioning Editor, Cordite; Politics Editor, Peril; Emerging Critic, Sydney Review of Books; and, Editorial Intern, Overland. Robert’s archive is housed at the Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts in Philadelphia.

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BOOKS


Redgate, New Delhi: Red River, 2020
Suburbanism, Melbourne: ASP, 2019
Concerning A Farm, Macau: Flying Island, 2017
History and the Poet, Melbourne: ASP, 2017


SELECTED POEMS


Redgate, Glasgow Review of Books, 2018
Four Poems, Softblow, 2018
Eight Poems, Sunflower Collective, 2018
Three Poems, Tiger Moth Review, 2018
Where Carrots, Adelaide Literary Magazine, 2018


^^^ with Ranjit Hoskote, Sampurna Chattarji and Mustansir Dalvi, Kitab Khana, Mumbai 2018

SELECTED INTERVIEWS


Hayley Megan French, Semaphore, 2019
Eileen Chong, Liminal, 2018
Kim Scott, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017
Poets in the Cafe series, PennSound, 2016



SELECTED ESSAYS


Tourist Realism, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019
The Next Suburb Over, Sydney Review of Books, 2018
On the Classics, Cultural Weekly, 2018
On Identity, Mascara Literary Review, 2016



REVIEWS OF ROBERT’S WORK


Baran Rostamian, Singapore Review of Books, 2020
Ni Fan, Limina, 2020
Chris Arnold, Westerly, 2019
Lyn Chatham, Plumwood Mountain, 2019
Alison Clifton, foam:e, 2018
Johanna Featherstone, Cordite, 2018
Philip Hall, Plumwood Mountain, 2018



ANTHOLOGIES


Padmagandha and PEN Congress, Pune: PEN India, 2018
Of Indian Origin, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2018
Active Aesthetics, Sydney: Giramondo, 2016



^^^ image by Leah Jing McIntosh