James Charlton (poet)

James Charlton (born 1947) is an Australian poet[1][2] and writer in the area of interfaith and interreligious studies.

Poetry editor of the Australian literary quarterly Island from 2002 to 2008,[4] he delivered the inaugural Gwen Harwood Memorial Lecture in 2008.

Charlton's Luminous Bodies was published in 2001 by Montpelier Press and tied for second place for the 2002 Anne Elder Award.

Numerous poems of his have been published in anthologies, in literary journals (Australian, American and British) and in newspapers.

"Letter to Walt Whitman re: Iraq" was published in The Best Australian Poems 2006 by Black Inc. Charlton's study of three European mystical poet-theologians, Non-dualism in Eckhart, Julian of Norwich and Traherne: A Theopoetic Reflection, was published by Bloomsbury in January 2013.