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…

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…

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);…

On Saturday 21 November I launched Judith Beveridge’s new poetry collection, Storm and Honey, at Gleebooks in Sydney.

Judy is one of Australia’s finest poets, so to launch her fine new collection of lyric poems and dramatic monologues,…

I’ll be running two workshops at the beautiful Olvar Wood writers’ retreat, near Brisbane, this year: one in poetry (16–18 April); one in nature writing (9–11 July).

Poetry: http://www.olvarwood.com.au/Olvar/Intensives/Poetry.html

Nature writing: http://www.olvarwood.com.au/Olvar/Workshops/NatureWritingWorkshop.html

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