John Mateer (born 1971) is a South African-born Australian poet and author.
Barefoot Speech won the 2001 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry[2] and Loanwords was shortlisted for the 2002 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards.
Unbelievers, or The Moor was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2015.
[4] He has read his work at poetry festivals in Asia and Europe, and most recently in Japan and in Malaysia.
Mateer was granted a fellowship to travel to Indonesia,[5] and later published a non-fiction travelogue entitled Semar's Cave: an Indonesian Journal.