Martin Duwell (born 1948, in England) is an Australian poetry editor, reviewer and publisher.
[1] Duwell was educated at the University of Queensland and has maintained a long association with the university as a teacher, scholar and editor for the poetry magazine Makar (1968–80) and the related Gargoyle Poets Series (1972–80).
Throughout his career, Duwell's reviews of new publications have appeared frequently in many Australian magazines and newspapers.
In 2003 he edited the first in a series of Best Australian Poetry, a selection of poems that appear in periodicals during each year.
[5] Duwell was the co-editor of The Best Australian Poetry series[6] and the editor of 37 books of poetry in the Gargoyle Poets Series, Makar Press[7] and was the editor of Makar magazine from 1968 to 1980.