I fly to Taipei next Wednesday to talk about Basho and the art of renunciation, the way of poetry, and the end of the world as we know it at the Fifth International Conference on Ecological Discourse at Tamkang University.…

Okay, indulge me here.

The last time the Dragons won the grand final, I was in my last year of high school. That was thirty-one years ago. A bit has happened since.

If I had tears…

I spent the weekend (1–3 October) in Launceston reading and listening to poems at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival. This year’s was the twenty-fifth—making it the longest-running poetry festival (one of the oldest continuous and continuing literary festivals, indeed) in Australia.…

Judy Beveridge has edited an anthology of new poems, Wording the World, and it comes out in early October from Puncher & Wattmann.

The collection showcases new work made under Judy’s tutelage by the students of Avondale College,…

My friend, the poet and memoirist KIm Stafford, son of the poet William Stafford, is leading, with Wendy Erd, a pilgrimage/writing retreat in Bhutan, early next year (24 January to 4 February 2011).

He tells me there are…