On 14 May 2010, I’m speaking at the 23rd annual conference of CLANZ (Corporate Lawyers Association of New Zealand) in Rotorua.

I’m on a panel with Rachel Paris, a playwright, who is also a lawyer with leading NZ…

The National Library of Australia just hosted a wonderful symposium on the essay: Essaying. The event featured as its speakers all the winners to date of the Calibre Essay Prize, one of Australia’s most significant literary prizes, and announced this…

There’s a newish festival of literary nonfiction in Australia. It’s called Reality Bites, and it’s on again this year in Cooroy, in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, 23 July to 1 August. I’m delighted to have received an invitation.…

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…