Kris Hemensley Biography | Poet

Kris Alan Hemensley (born 26 April 1946) is a poet who has published around 20 collections of poetry. Through the late 60's and 70's he was involved in poetry workshops at La Mama, and edited the literary magazines Our Glass, The Ear in a Wheatfield, and others. The Ear played an important role in providing a place where poets writing outside what was then the mainstream (such as Jennifer Maiden ) could publish their work. In 1969 and 1970 he presented the program Kris Hemensley's Melbourne on ABC Radio. In the 1970s he was poetry editor for Meanjin