Tom Shapcott

Tom Shapcott (born 1935) is a well known Australian poet who has been published in a number of countries. Translations of major selections of his work have been published in Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Macedonia. He has published fifteen ollections of poems in Australia, as well as six novels and other prose works. He was the inaugural Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide 1997-2005, in South Australia.