AJ Carruthers is a contemporary Asian-Australian poet and critic, author of the academic book Stave Sightings: Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961–2011 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and the inaugural part of a lifelong poem AXIS Book 1: Areal (Vagabond, 2014). He is poetry reviews editor of Southerly, essays editor of Rabbit and founder of SOd press. He tweets at @axispoet.