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Benjamin Laird
Benjamin Laird is a software developer and poet. His poems and essays have been published in various print and online journals. His electronic poetry includes The Durham Poems, a chapbook of biographical poems about William Denton, a nineteenth century spiritualist, scientific lecturer, and radical; and ‘Core Values’, a response to Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards QUT Digital Literature Award.