DENNIS HASKELL is the author of 9 collections of poetry, the most recent And Yet… (WA Poets Publishing, 2020) and Ahead of Us (Fremantle Press, 2016) plus 14 volumes of literary scholarship and criticism and many literary essays. Haskell was Co-editor of Westerly magazine from 1985-2009 and is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia. He is the recipient of the Western Australia Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the A A Phillips Prize for a distinguished contribution to Australian literature (from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature), and of an … Read more about Dennis Haskell
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Who Would Know?
Dennis Haskell's tenth poetry collection. John Kinsella nominated Who Would Know? as one of his Books of the Year in Australian Book Review, December 2024, saying "Dennis Haskell's Who Would Know? (WA Poets Inc) is a vade mecum of different poetic modes, 'conversational voice', and formal … Read more about Who Would Know?
Biography
Dennis Haskell was born into a working class family in the western suburbs of Sydney; his father was a carpenter (d.1983) and his mother (d.2017) a florist. He attended primary schools in Croydon, Auburn West and Berala, before going on to Homebush Boys High School. He completed a Commerce degree at the University of New South Wales and worked as an accountant or lecturer in business studies for almost a decade, in Sydney and London. He travelled … Read more about Biography
