Philip Benham (1942-85) was a contributing editor to the Australian Poetry Magazine and with his partner John Welch he was cofounder of Chiron College, an innovative senior secondary school in Sydney in the 1970s.

Of Benham’s work the poet and critic Thomas Shapcott has written : “A highly individual and stylish poetic sensibility; the qualities of conciseness and poise are admirably sustained. Benham is virtually alone in Australian poetry at the moment in his mastery of pointed brevity, wit and explosion.”