Steven Herrick (born in Brisbane, 1958) is an Australian poet and author. Herrick has published twenty-one books for adults, young adults and children.
Herrick was born the youngest of seven children. His first published poem, written at age eighteen, was called Love is like a gobstopper. He studied poetry at university, and gained his B.A. from the University of Queensland in 1982.
He regularly visits schools throughout Australia where he talks with students about poetry and soccer, which he has loved since childhood. He has also performed in the United Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Canada, Croatia, Spain, Vietnam, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
He lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with his wife, Cathie. They have two adult sons.Named jack and joe.
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“And to your more bewitching, see the proud,
Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,
Tempting the two too modest; can
Ye see it brustle like a swan,
And you be cold
To meet it when it woos and seems to fold
The arms to hug you? Throw, throw
Yourselves into the mighty overflow
Of that white pride, and drown
The night with you in floods of down.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)