Andrew Sant

Who is Andrew Sant?

Andrew Sant is an English born Australian poet.

In 1962 Sant moved from London, where he was born, with his family to Melbourne where he finished his formal education. He has since lived in London for periods, most recently between 2002-2005 while he was Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester, between 2007-2008 while at the University of Chichester and 2010-2011 while at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2001 he was resident at the University of Peking in Beijing, China. In the early nineties he was resident in the Australia Council-administered B R Whiting studio in Rome.

He co-founded in 1979 the literary magazine, Island, based in Tasmania where by that time he had moved. He served as an editor for ten years. Other occupations have included teaching at both secondary and tertiary levels, teaching literacy to the unemployed and to prisoners, managing a hostel for juvenile offenders, copywriting and, as part owner of a small Tasmanian company, cider making. One of his best-known poems 'Homage to the Canal People' was written after Sant worked in 1976 on a narrowboat, travelling along the English canals.