Laurie Duggan was born in in Melbourne and was involved in the poetry worlds of that city and Sydney from the 1970s to the late 1990s. After six years in Brisbane he moved to England, living in Faversham, Kent until 2018 when he returned to Sydney. He has published some twenty books of poems together with Ghost Nation, a work about imagined space. His most recent books are Homer Street (Giramondo 2020), Selected Poems 1971–2017 (Shearsman 2018), and No Particular Place To Go (Shearsman 2017).