At a dinner in Montreal on Thursday 27 April, the anthology of shortlisted poems from the 2011 Montreal Poetry Prize is being launched. The broadside of Linda Rogers’s “The Grasshoppers’ Silence” is also being unveiled that night. And I am being honoured for winning the prize—the largest in the world…

This August (18 to 25), I’m reprising the creative writing masterclass, “A Dream With A Pen in its Hand”, I ran at Daku Resort in Fiji last year.

I’m posting below (our host) Delia Rothnie-Jones’s description and outline of the course. For what we got up to last…

My poem “Walking Underwater”, written in Portland, Oregon, on a reading tour, in March last year, has won the inaugural Montreal Poetry Prize.

The prize is worth $50,000, raised mostly from the donations of poets and modest entry fees. $50, 000 is more than has ever been offered…

My week’s workshop (A Dream with a Pen in Its Hand) at Daku in Fiji, 11 to 18 June 2011, seemed to go off very beautifully, from where I sat. Apart from learning a lot from my class, walking, snorkelling and jogging, and fumbling my way toward grace in some…

My friend, the fine Australian landscape painter Roland Hemmert, is opening a new exhibition of paintings and pastels at Links House, Bowral, on Saturday 30 July.

I’ve seen most of the images from this show as they came into the world, retreated sometimes, and came again, more boldly,…

“When there is no painting, you get lonely”: words that belong to an aboriginal painter from out Broken Hill way, I think. Shared with my friend Roland Hemmert, the painter; shared again with me.

I’ve been thinking about them these past weeks, healing myself, feeling close to content…