Vivian Smith (poet)

Vivian Brian Smith FAHA (born 3 June 1933) is an Australian poet.

Smith has published criticism as well as a bibliography of the work of Patrick White.

Smith's first book of poetry, The Other Meaning, was published in 1956 and he has since published eight further collections, among which Tide Country won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize.

With his fellow poet and great friend, the late Noel Rowe, he published the anthology Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry (Pandanus Books 2006).

[2] Smith won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 1983 and the Patrick White Award in 1997.