The Blue Plateau is out this June, and to celebrate its launch Macquarie University is hosting an evening of readings and conversation under the title “The Poetry and Politics of Place”. The event happens on 16 June in the MQU…

My poem “Red Tulips” has won second prize in this year’s Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. See the entry below for details.

My friend the painter, Roland Hemmert, has an exhibition of his landscapes, Red Earth Country, at the Milk Factory Gallery in Bowral from 19 June to 2 July this year.

Roland’s work is beautiful. Come and see it.…

The first cowshed class for the year comes to an end on 8 June.

The next starts on 5 September and runs till 14 November. You can register interest through the star burst on my home page.

Over Easter, I took up my artist’s residence in the Lockup in Newcastle. The residency is funded and run jointly by the John Paynter Gallery, the Historic Houses Trust, and the Hunter Writers’ Centre. I got five new poems written…