Calibre Essay Prize 2008

Published : Sunday, February 03, 2008

The February issue of Australian Book Review announces the winners of the Calibre Essay Prize for 2008, and one of them is me. My essay “A Storm & a Teacup” shares this year’s prize with Rachel Robertson’s “Reaching One Thousand.”…

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Our works are our children

Published : Friday, December 21, 2007
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Photo by : Nicola Trethowan

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Newcastle Poetry Prize

Published : Tuesday, December 04, 2007

This year’s Newcastle Poetry Prize, Australia’s most generous and prestigious, was awarded on Friday night (30 November) to my poem “Eclogues”. When the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle (sponsors with Newcastle City Council of the prize, which is administered…

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The Poet Within

Published : Saturday, November 24, 2007

I’m the subject of a column ("The Switch") in the MyCareer section of The Sydney Morning Herald this Saturday (24 November 2007; election day). The story, written by Anne Fawcett, covers the apprenticeship I served in law and book publishing…

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We are not Finished

Published : Thursday, November 22, 2007

My poem “We are not Finished at the Skin,” written in conversation with Lucia Rossi’s wonderful images, was published last week in PAN 4. PAN is an online journal; PAN is Philosophy, Activism, Nature. Check it out; subscribe. PAN 4…

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