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 at the needs, constraints and challenges—and it targets the characteristic…

In July, my friend the painter Deborah Cassimatis-Hooper and I made a work together called “Crossroads” to support Geraldine Turner’s run for election to the local council. The work includes some lines from my poem “Fortune” and a triptych of Deb’s.

From 15 September to the end of November, I’ll be at the University of Wollongong as a visiting fellow in the English Department. The fellowship will give me a chance to finish the final edit of The Blue Plateau, to work on a collection of poems and to begin my book, Reading Slowly at the End of Time. The department’s…