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…

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…

“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…

The Plains Humanities Alliance have invited me to spend a week at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in early April this year. I’ll be giving some talks and readings and teaching some classes there—all of it on the ecotone between…

What looks certain to be the very last issue of that very fine literary journal, Indigo, has just come out.

Indigo 6 (Summer 2011) contains, apart from the usual assembly of unusual of fine and surprising poetry and…