Dennis Haskell

Professor Dennis Haskell is the author of 6 collections of poetry and 13 volumes of literary scholarship and criticism. His "All the Time in the World" won the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2007.

Prof Haskell was co-editor of Westerly, from 1985-2009, and is the director of the Westerly Centre and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia.

He was chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts from 2009-2011 and director of Australian Poetry.

Prof Haskell is a recipient of the A A Phillips Prize from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and the University of WA awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2012.