My latest book, The Little Green Grammar Book, twin to The Little Red Writing Book, has just come into the world (October 2008).

Grammar is the rules for paradise, I say in the book; writing is the paradise. Grammar is the set or rules you need to know…

My first collection of poems, The Road South, came out in late September 2008 on CD. I read nineteen of my poems on the disk. Many of them are set in the country I moved to in early 2007 and which I wrote about at length in “Eclogues” (Newcastle Prize…

With Geoff Whyte, I’m writing a book to help you write engagingly, economically and powerfully, perhaps even truthfully at work.

The book, due out in October 2009 (UNSW Press) is called The Little Black Book of Business Writing; it’s like The Little Red Writing Book, but it’s aimed…

The Blue Plateau got its first review on Saturday (6 June 2009), the day of the brilliant full moon, in The Weekend Australian.

Under the banner “A Natural Way With Words”, Liam Davison had some nice—if sober—things to say. But, of course, the real book never makes it…

The Blue Plateau is out this June, and to celebrate its launch Macquarie University is hosting an evening of readings and conversation under the title “The Poetry and Politics of Place”. The event happens on 16 June in the MQU Art Gallery. Deborah Bird Rose, anthropologist, lyric essayist, ecologist and…

My poem “Red Tulips” has won second prize in this year’s Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. See the entry below for details.