My profile of poet Robert Gray appears in The Sun-Herald (Extra) on Sunday 21 February.

Robert, whose poetry taught me how to write, talked very elegantly when we met a couple of weeks back, about the nature and the future of poetry, so my piece is as much…

I have a couple of poems, “Red Moon Eclogues” and “Wingecarribee Eclogues”, in the very cool online journal, Perilous Adventures: http://www.perilousadventures.net

Have a look, while you’re there, at what Inga and Nike are doing at their writing retreat, Olvar Wood, where I’m running a nature writing and…

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…

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…