Tim Metcalf

Tim Metcalf is an Australian poet and doctor, described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets. He resides in Brogo, New South Wales (NSW), and has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984. He has worked in NSW, Victoria, the Northern Territory, and British Columbia. In 2007, he received the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems, Verbal Medicine, which is his fourth book. Additionally, he was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry, Stages of Dying.