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Contains essential information about upcoming Davey Dreamnation shows, concert performances and mime cabaret experiments.

Oxfam Christmas Poetry Fundraiser!

I’ll be channelling Dickens (or maybe just Bill Murray in Scrooged) on Tuesday 2 December, when I’ll be appearing at a London fundraising event described as ‘8 Poets in 80 minutes’. Of course, if this were a haiku gathering, that…

ISR Seminar Au-Go-Go!

On Thursday 6 December I’ll be giving a presentation on my nearly-completed PhD thesis, entitled ‘Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Literature’. The seminar will be held at Swinburne University of Technology (Hawthorn campus), where…

Reading at La Trobe University!

The La Trobe English Program is running a 12 week reading series entitled Eggs & Roses, with a couple of writers—emerging or established, La Trobean or from further afield—reading each week. For anyone (someone?) who will be at the La…

QPF Redux

I’m kicking myself that I didn’t take the opportunity while I was in Bris Vegas to grab one of the posters for the Queensland Poetry Festival, in which I was lucky enough to take part. Still, I did manage to…

Tranter Redux

My conversation with John Tranter at the Melbourne Writers Festival was a surprisingly pleasant and interesting affair. I say surprisingly because I was nervous as all get-up beforehand – due mostly to the fact that for me, John Tranter has…