Tim Metcalf (b. 1961) is an Australian poet and doctor, described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets. He resides in Brogo, New South Wales (NSW), and has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984. He has worked in NSW, Victoria, the Northern Territory, and British Columbia.Biography - 9th National Rural Health Conference 2007 In 2007, he received the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems, Verbal Medicine, which is his fourth book.Local Writer's Poetry Prize, Bega News, 21 Dec 2007
Bibliography Corvus, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2001 Cut to the Word, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2002 Into the No Zone, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2003 Verbal Medicine, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006 The Solution to Us, Ginninderra Press Adelaide 2008 The Effective Butterfly, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2010 Last To Go and Other Poems, Picaro Press, Cardiff NSW 2012 The Underwritten Plain, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2018 The Moon the Bone: Selected Poems 1986-2022, Ginninderra Press
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External links Tim Metcalf's Home Page contains poems and essays, a full bibliography, readings in medical literature developed for Australian National University Medical School, and the Poets of the Bega Valley Audio Project Review of Verbal Medicine by Dr Jim Leavesley, Australian Doctor, 1 Feb 2007