Poets' Corner with John Foulcher

Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Adès. Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice. This month David talks to John Foulcher. John Foulcher has written twelve books of poetry. His latest book, Dancing with Stephen Hawking (Pitt Street Poetry 2021), was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Poetry Prize in 2022. His work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies over nearly forty years, and he has received many awards, including the National Library Poetry Prize and the ACU Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for others, such as the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood poetry prize, the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize. Poems from his first book, Light Pressure (Angus&Robertson 1983), were set for study on the New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus for ten years. In 2010-11 he was the Literature Board of the Australia Council’s resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris. His books can be purchased from pittstreetpoetry.com. (Writing on the land of the Yuin people) Publications: Light Pressure (Angus&Robertson 1983) Pictures from the War (Angus&;Robertson 1987) Paperweight (AngusRobertson 1991) New and Selected Poems (Harper/Collins 1993) The Honeymoon Snaps (Harper/Collins 1996) Convertible (Indigo 2000) The Learning Curve (Brandl&Schlesinger 2002) What on Earth Possessed You: Poems 1983-2008 (Halstead Press 2008) The Sunset Assumption (Pitt Street Poetry 2011) 101 Poems (Pitt Street Poetry 2016) A Casual Penance (Pitt Street Poetry 2017) Dancing with Stephen Hawking (Pitt Street Poetry 2021) The Night Stair (Forthcoming from Pitt Street Poetry 2025)