Richard Hillman

Richard Hillman (born 16 March 1964 in Liverpool, New South Wales) is a contemporary Australian poet. He has published a number of collections, and was a founding editor of the poetry and poetics journal Sidewalk (1997). His "The Big Wet Takes Hold" (2004) and "The Night Parrot" (2006) were selected among the best Australian poems. In 2001, he was a doctoral student at Flinders University.