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Joe Denham is a
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poet and fiction writer."Windstorm, by Joe Denham"
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'', October 2010.
He is most noted for his 2016 collection ''Regeneration Machine'', which won the
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Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the
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'', October 4, 2016.
He published his first poetry chapbook, ''Night Haul, Morning Set'', in 2002."A Review of: Flux"
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The collection was then included in his first commercially published book, ''Flux'', the following year. He has since published the poetry collections ''Windstorm'' and ''Regeneration Machine'', and the novel ''The Year of Broken Glass''. Some sources have also incorrectly credited him with the novel ''Sins of the Fishermen'', which was in fact written by an unrelated American lawyer. Denham resides in
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, where he has worked as a commercial fisherman. He studied creative writing at the
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."Author, author". ''
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'', January 9, 2003.


Works


Poetry

*''Night Haul, Morning Set'' (2002) *''Flux'' (2003) *''Windstorm'' (2010) *''Regeneration Machine'' (2016)


Fiction

*''The Year of Broken Glass'' (2011)


References

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