Tim Metcalf 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.^[1] In 2007, he received the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems, Verbal Medicine, which is his fourth book.^[2] Additionally, he was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry, Stages of Dying.