Mike Lucas

www.mikelucas.com.au

Mike Lucas has written and published several books of nonsense poetry, has had some work highly commended in magazines and contributed to Tadpoles in the Torrens, dedicated to Max Fatchen. He also had a poem selected by US Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt, which appeared in One Minute Till Bedtime, published by Little Brown in the US and Australia in 2016. His first picture book, Olivia’s Voice was a CBCA Notable and in 2018 Vanishing was published. Bad Herbert, published by Larrikin House in 2021, arrived next. His latest book, Let's Build a House, was published by Hachette Australia in April 2021.

He owns and runs a bookshop in Blackwood, South Australia. Each year he writes a poem with the CBCA Book Week theme as a title. In 2017 he was one of the main organisers of the Adelaide Festival of Children's Books.

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