“As If We Were God’s Spies”: Poetry out of Nothing

Simon West is the author of First Names (Puncher & Wattmann 2006), The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti (Troubador Publishing, 2009), and more recently The Yellow Gum’s Conversion (Puncher & Wattmann 2011). His awards include the The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarshipand the BR Whiting Residency, and he is represented in anthologies including Thirty Australian Poets (University of Queensland Press) and Young Poets: An Australian Anthology (John LeonardPress).