Ken Taylor (poet)

Ken Taylor (born 1930) is an Australian poet.

Life
Taylor was born in Ballarat, Victoria. He trained and worked as a journalist, joining the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1962. In 1965 he won a Harkness Fellowship to study in the United States, where he studied literature at Cornell University.

His first collection of poetry was Two Poets (with Kris Hemensley) in 1968. In 1975 he published his first major collection, At Valentine's and other poems.

Publications

 * At Valentines: poems 1966-1969. Melbourne: Contempa Publications, 1975.
 * A Secret Australia: Selected and New Poems. Melbourne: Rigmorale Books, 1985.
 * Africa. Wollongong: Five Islands Press, 2000.