Just a reminder that the first cowshed class for 2010 starts Saturday, 13 March and runs every other Saturday till 22 May. (Search this site for more detail.)

There’ll be a second series, starting 17 July.

And I’ll be running some Saturday and weekend workshops and…

The Blue Plateau, published by Milkweed in October 2009, scored a lovely review in Orion in November:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/5116/

Characterising my prose as part Mary Austin, part Gretel Erlich, the reviewer Phil Condon suggests:

Tredinnick’s vision and voice become the forces of wind and…

Okay, so the big news: my first volume of poetry will come into the world this year (2010).

Puncher & Wattmann, David Musgrave’s smart little poetry press, which has been punching well above its weight from the start, will bring out a volume of my poems in October…

My friend the painter Roland Hemmert has a new exhibition, Three States, opening in Tamworth on Friday 12 February at the new Weswal Gallery.

The show runs from 12 February to 11 March (2010) and features paintings and pastels of country in three Australian states.

Roland…

Over Christmas, I’ve been reading, among other things, and between overs in the cricket, three new books from a series on the art of poetry.

The books are published by Graywolf; the series is “The Art of”; the editor is Charles Baxter; and the books are brief and…

At the Perth Writers’ Festival this year (25 February to 1 March) I’m running a short version of The Little Red Writing Workshop; I’m reading poetry with Robert Gray and Sam Wagan Watson; I’m a guerilla poet (so watch out); I’m chairing a panel on the uses of literature in…