Deb Westbury
The first of four daughters, Deb Westbury was born in Wollongong in 1954. She completed both a Master of Creative Arts and a teaching degree, and was a fine and accomplished lyric poet. From the 1970s, her poetry was widely published in literary journals, and her first book, Mouth to Mouth, was published in 1990. Four other full-length collections followed: Our Houses are Full of Smoke (1994), Surface Tension (1998), Flying Blind (2002), and The View from Here (2008). Her final chapbook, Winter in Stone Country, was published in 2016. Deb’s poetry was featured on the ABC’s Poetica, and was also on the HSC list for English. She was one of the founding members of Five Islands Press, and helped select and mentor poets in the Five Islands Press New Poets Series.
A Tribute - Westerly Magazine HERE
Profile and Poems - Red Room Poetry HERE
Auslit biography HERE