Background
He grew up on his family"s farm in the rural locality of Woodstock, Victoria, which is a large focus of his poetry. Coburn was born in Melbourne, and educated at Whittlesea Primary School and Assumption College, Kilmore.
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He is known for his highly personal, sometimes confronting style of writing. Poet Les Wicks has called him "the best portraitist of Australian rural life since Brendan Ryan". Coburn"s first published poem "Two Lies in Sequence" appeared in Pi O"s literary journal Unusual Work when he was 17 years old.
Coburn"s work is largely drawn from personal experience, such as his struggles with depression, alcohol abuse, anorexia nervosa and self-harm.
He writes frequently about farm life, with predominant themes of greyhound racing and training, family, isolation and the emotional hardships of living in rural Australia. He writes primarily in free verse, using striking imagery and personal reflections to evoke the landscape and humanity"s connection to lieutenant
In answer to the question of why he writes poetry, Coburn has said "lieutenant simply isn’t a conscious decision I make to write poetry, but an impulsion that cannot be ignored. photographs parts of life and humanity that can’t be captured visually, at least in a literal sense. lieutenant dissects the hopelessness of being alive and makes it seem to develop meaning momentarily, even if it never actually does.
If our most private and affecting inner thoughts and memories, the ones we keep silently at the backs of our minds, were given a voice, it would be poetry.
That is what poetry is to medical " As well as poetry, Coburn has published works of literary and science fiction. His new collection of poems The Other Flesh and debut novel Conversation with Skin are forthcoming. Personal Coburn is a vegetarian.
He identifies Bob Dylan as his personal hero.
