Robert William Geoffrey Gray (born 23 February 1945) is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.
[1] Gray was born in Port Macquarie,[2] grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales.
He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney after settling in the 1970s as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops.
As a poet Gray is most notable for his keen visual imagery and intensely observed landscapes, known as a very skilful imagist.
"[3] His wide reading in and experience of East Asian cultures and their varieties of Zen Buddhism is clear in many of the themes and forms he chooses to work in, including, for example haiku-style free verse works, nature style poetry, as well as discursive and narrative style poems, such as "Diptych," (1984).