My 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 winning and shortlisted entries from last year’s award, came out in a stunning and important new issue of the US literary journal, Manoa, in July (20/1). The issue, guest edited by Barry Lopez, is titled The Gates of Reconciliation, and it includes beautiful prose, poetry and images on justice, forgiveness, ferocity, and a new ethics for a globalised and ecologically challenged world.

Both of these poems appear on my CD collection The Road South (September 2008, River Road Press).