Benjamin Laird is a software engineer and poet. His print and electronic poetry have been published in various journals. His longer works include the digital chapbook The Durham Poems, part of a series of poems on William Denton, a nineteenth-century spiritualist, scientific lecturer, and radical. He holds a PhD from RMIT University, where he teaches digital writing.
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