I have an essay “A Peaceable Revolution” in a fantastic new book Project Republic, and argument for the republic we should have become years ago.

The book comes out late in May, but my advances arrived today, and I can feel the book’s energy (essays, especially, by Larissa…

I’m bringing in the new year—thank you, Kit—with a sulphur-crested sonnet in the Wonder Book. http://wonderbookofpoetry.org/mark-tredinnicks-sulphur-crested-cockatoo-at-dusk/

Kit Kelen is publishing my sonnet “Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo at Dusk” in his online Wonder Book of Poetry. Get onto the Wonder Book: it’s a treat. Not just a online journal; more…

Seems like a long time ago now, but it must have been 2004 or 2005, I travelled to Hawaii to be part of a tour of international writers, hosted by Takiora Ingram and there Pacific Writers Connection. Larissa Behrendt was on that tour and Kim Stafford and Debra Magpie Earling.…

My talk “A Poet’s Guide to Climate Change” plays on Radio National tomorrow (Sunday 30 December 2012) at 9:45 am.

Here’s the link: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/a-poet27s-guide-to-climate-change/4426198

You can read and download the transcript there; after 30 December, you can hear the talk by podcast. Assuming the poles…

In June my poem “Margaret River Sestets” was announced as the winner of this year’s Cardiff International Poetry Prize for 2012.
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http://www.literaturewales.org/news/i/141526/

The prize attracts entries from all over the world, and it carries prize money of 5000 pounds.

My…

It seems we—and the land we say we love so much—dodged a bullet on Friday (7 December 2012). But only narrowly, and possibly not for long. (The States of Australia want the Commonwealth to hand back environmental protection powers to the States. Remember the Franklin, anyone? The super trawler? The…