Kris Alan Hemensley (born 26 April 1946) is an English-Australian poet who has published around 20 collections of poetry.
Through the late 1960s and '70s he was involved in poetry workshops at La Mama, and edited the literary magazines Our Glass, The Ear in a Wheatfield, and others.
The Ear played an important role in providing a place where poets writing outside what was then the mainstream (such as Jennifer Maiden[1]) could publish their work.
In the 1970s he was poetry editor for Meanjin The son of an Egyptian mother and an English father who was stationed in Egypt with the Royal Air Force, Hemensley was born on the Isle of Wight, and spent his early childhood in Alexandria.
Hemensley managed Collected Works, a specialist poetry bookshop in Melbourne, Australia, until it closed down in late 2018.