David McCooey is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Blister Pack (Salt, 2005), which won the Mary Gilmore Award and was shortlisted for four other major l...ver maisDavid McCooey is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Blister Pack (Salt, 2005), which won the Mary Gilmore Award and was shortlisted for four other major literary awards, Outside (Salt 2010), which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards, and Star Struck (UWAP, 2016). His poetry appeared in ten of the last eleven editions of The Best Australian Poems series, and it has been widely anthologised nationally and internationally. McCooey is the deputy general editor of the prize-winning Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (2009). He is the author of a prize-winning monograph on Australian autobiography, and numerous essays and reviews in various books, journals, and newspapers. ver menos