Brook Emery has worked as a swimming instructor, beach inspector, removalist and, for a long time, as an English and History teacher. He lives in Sydney and is studying for a doctorate in Creative Arts at Newcastle University (2003). He has been the NSW editor of Blue Dog. His awards include The Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2001; The Newcastle Poetry Prize, 1999 and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2004 for which he was shortlisted.

Brook  has been interviewed for Red Room Radio and has written the ‘Notes to Poets’ which features in Red Room’s Papercuts education program.

Listen ‘to an interview with Brook about the future of poetry and hear him read the poem created for the Red Room Remains - Sutainable Sydney’ project.

A river winds through Pitt Street Mall,

speckled fish swim eagerly to work, children leap,

pick marshmallows from the trees; everyone stops

to say hello; cars dance, bikes ring silent bells

and the sky is filled with clowns, dancing.

Brook Emery & Yr 3 Crown St Public School