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Robbie Coburn (born Robert Lee Coburn, June 25, 1994, Melbourne, Australia), civil servant, poet, and author first inspired to write haiku after reading “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound. Since 2017 his haiku have been published in print and online, including in Windfall, Echidna Tracks, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Tinywords, Frogpond, Presence, Blithe Spirit, and Wales Haiku Journal. His work was selected for inclusion in A Hole in the Light: The Red Moon Anthology 2018, and Under the Same Moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology (2024). His haiku has also been translated into Spanish and transcribed into braille and added to the State Library of Victoria’s collection. His first haiku collection, Blood Rodeo, was published in 2025. He grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria and now lives in Melbourne, where he is a member of the Fringe Myrtles Haiku Group.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.