Kevin Gillam is a West Australian poet with two books of poems published, Other Gravities (2003) and Permitted to Fall (2007), both by Sunline Press. He has also had two chapbooks of poems published, Shouting, Drowning (2006) and Closer to Now (2009) by Picaro Press. He has appeared at poetry festivals in Queensland, Tasmania, Melbourne and Darwin, and been a feature poet on the ABC Radio National program ‘Poetica’. He is employed as Director of Music at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth.
The 2nd prize winner of the 2010 National Jazz Writing Competition receives:
- a ten-pack of CDs from Birdland Records
- publication in extempore Issue 5
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