Alister Kershaw (1921-1995), was an Australian poet, writer and broadcaster who lived in France from 1948. He created the hoax poet Mort Brandish before the Ern Malley affair, and wrote about bohemian Melbourne in his celebrated memoir HEYDAYS (ETT Imprint). From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, Kershaw was Paris correspondent for the ABC, some of which were published in A WORD FROM PARIS.
