John Blight was born, in 1913, in Unley, South Australia . He became, in 1939, an accountant in Bundaberg, Queensland, thence a part-owner of timber mills after World War II, in the Gympie, Queensland region. He took up full-time writing in 1973.

John Blight has received numerous awards, including the Dame Mary Gilmore Medal, Grace Leven Prize for poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award. He died in 1995.

Bibliography

• The Old Pianist: Poems (1945)
• The Two Suns Met (1954)
• A Beachcomber's Diary (1964)
• My Beachcombing Days : Ninety Sea Sonnets (1968)
• Hart : Poems (1975)
• Selected Poems 1939-1975 (1976)
• Pageantry for a Lost Empire (1978)
• The New City Poems (1980)
• Holiday Sea Sonnets (1985)
• Selected Poems 1939-1990 (1992)