Robbie Coburn

Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and young adult author.

Career

Coburn’s first published poem appeared in poet Pi O's literary journal Unusual Work when he was 17 years old.

Awards

2026 – Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Young Adult, The Foal in the Wire, Finalist 2026 – Ena Noël Award, The Foal in the Wire, Shortlisted 2026 – Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, The Foal in the Wire, Notable Book 2026 – Prime Minister's Literary Awards – Young Adult Fiction, The Foal in the Wire, Finalist

Selected works

Young adult verse novels The Foal in the Wire (Lothian Children’s Books, 2025)

Poetry collections The Other Flesh (UWA Publishing, 2019) And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023) Ghost Poetry (Upswell Publishing, 2024) Spur (Filthy Loot, 2025)

Anthologies edited How Fast is the Wind?: An Anthology of Horse Poems with Candida Baker (5 Islands Press, 2026)

Selected list of poems "Shock Lessons, a Paddock Scripture", Poetry, May 2016 "Convalescence", Meanjin, October 2018