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…

I pick up a rock on the lakeshore,
a riverstone the glacier left,
now cleft perfectly down the middle,
a notch at one end.
This is how one feels,
half a self,
bereft.
We are here,…

ONE

If a week is a long time in politics, how long is eleven-and-a half years?

Long enough, I’d say.

Long enough, almost, to forget there is another way of governing; that holding sway is not the same thing as leading a people; that…

After fifty-seven years as an—often controversial, always prestigious—prize for visual art, The Blake Prize became this year a prize for poetry, too—a prize won by my poem “Have You Seen”. Another of my poems, “Paradise”, which I like rather more, was one of two highly commended poems (and a third…

My son Michael has been captain of his high school (Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School) this year. Shortly he sits his HSC.

My daughter, Michael’s sister, Louisa, has just been announced school…

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…