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Nelson was born in Bundaberg, Queensland in 1970. He began writing and performing poetry in Perth in the late 1990s. In 2001 Nelson moved to Melbourne. After a long writing hiatus, in 2010 he had a poem published in the journal page seventeen. He has since been a finalist in 2011 Poetry Idol and the 2011 Dorothy Leadbetter Poetry Cup and was the winner of the 2011 Eastern Regional Libraries National Poetry Prize (as well as having a poem highly commended in the same competition).

The devil in the detail

On this site you will find information about the poet Nelson Oliver

Portfolio - Prizes and Publications

News

Poems - a few examples of his work

Multimedia - Nelson reads his poems