Brisbane
Heather and I flew back to Brisbane last week for the launch of Ghost Wife. Our friends had been complaining for weeks about the endless rain, but when I arrived on the Friday, it wasn’t raining at all. This was a good sign. Maybe it would be the gorgeous and relaxing visit that I so needed. [...]
In Stores Now
Ghost Wife started to appear in bookstores last Friday, and Heather and I spent Friday night strolling from shop to shop in a wonderful procession that involved seeking the book out, finding it, being delighted, and taking pictures. Since my last book was a poetry collection, and poetry books barely hit bookstore shelves, this process [...]
Manifestations
It’s funny to think that years of work are over and my memoir Ghost Wife is finished. It came back from the printer just before Christmas; instead of being a manuscript that lives mainly in my head, now it’s a book, an actual thing, and it’s sitting on a shelf in my living room. It’s [...]
Cut-Up Poems in The Big Four
Over the past couple of weeks in residence here at Arteles, I’ve been inspired to experiment with cut-up poetry. I haven’t spent much time exploring the technique before now, but it’s always interested me. The impetus behind my recent experimentation was this: November’s artists-in-residence decided that we would all make artifacts to display at a local shop [...]
The Light in Finland
I have been in Finland for the past few weeks, and before that I was in London, Budapest, and Prague doing poetry readings as part of my Marten Bequest travels. After all the busyness of the travelling and readings—and a healthy dollop of sightseeing, since this is my first visit to Europe—it’s been good to [...]
Review and News
Martin Duwell has reviewed Electricity for Beginners over at Australian Poetry Review. He reviews one book each month, on the first of the month, and I am very pleased that mine made it on to his list. I write from foggy England, where I am about to commence my reading tour, thanks to the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. I [...]
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