Paul Hetherington (poet)

Paul Hetherington (born 1958- ) is an Australian poet.

Life
Hetherington was born in Adelaide in 1958. He was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he received a Ph.D. with a thesis on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. In the 1980s he was editor of the Fremantle Arts Review.

He moved to Canberra in 1990 and began work in the National Library of Australia. He edited Volumes 2-4 of the NLA edition of the diaries of artist Donald Friend. He edited the National Library of Australia News from 1990 to 2008. He was founding editor of the quarterly literary and humanities review Voices (1991-1997).

Poetry

 * Mapping Wildwood Road. Pamphlet Poets, Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1990).
 * Acts Themselves Trivial. South Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, 1991).
 * The Dancing Scorpion. Canberra: Molongo Press, 1993).
 * Shadow Swimmer. Canberra: Molongo Press, 1995).
 * Canvas Light. Canberra: Molongo Press, 1998).
 * Stepping Away: Selected Poems. Canberra: Molongo Press, 2001).
 * Blood and Old Belief: A Verse Novel. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2003).
 * It Feels Like Disbelief. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2007).

Edited

 * The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 2. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2003.
 * The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 3. National Library of Australia, 2005.
 * The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 4. National Library of Australia, 2006.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Australian Poetry Library. [