Dennis Haskell
Author of Poetry
based in WA
Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell is the author of 10 collections of poetry published in Australia, the UK, and The Philippines, plus 14 volumes of literary scholarship and criticism. Haskell was Co-editor of Westerly magazine from 1985-2009, is a recipient of the Western Australia Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the A A Phillips Prize for a distinguished contribution to Australian literature, and of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Western Australia where he is a Senior Honorary Researcher. He is General Editor for WA Poets Publishing and a Member of the Order of Australia for “services to literature, particularly poetry, to education and to intercultural understanding”. His most recent poetry collections are Who Would Know?(2024), And Yet (2020), and Ahead of Us (2016).Dennis has been a visiting poet and professor at Cambridge University and at universities in China, France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Thailand and the USA. He has been an invited speaker or poet at numerous universities and literary festivals around the world. In 2010 he represented Australia at a literary festival held in India in association with the Commonwealth Games. He is a past Chair of the LIterature Board of the Australia Council and is currently General Editor for the poetry book series of WAPoets Publishing.
