My poem, another eclogue, “The Economics of Spring” appeared in the first issue of the revivified and very desirable Meanjin in August (68/3). “Eclogues”, the winner of last year’s Newcastle Poetry Prize and previously published in Eclogues, the anthology of…

On Friday night (12 September) I went along to the launch—a generous and smart and well tempered launch—of poet Robert Gray’s prose poem of a memoir, The Land I Came Through Last , at Lesley McKay’s Bookshop in Woollahra.

On Saturday, 27 September, my friend Geraldine Turner is launching my first collection—a selection really—of poems, The Road South, at Berrima.

The Road South is a CD, produced and published by River Road Press; on it I read…

It’s good at last to be able to write this: Alex Payne has signed my book, The Blue Plateau, to UQP (the University of Queensland Press), and the book will appear in May 2009.

We’ll launch it at…

Writing Well: the Essential Guide was published in the US and the rest of the English-speaking world in late August. Writing Well is really The Little…