Works

This page lists my creative, academic and editorial works, including books, chapbooks, special collections, theses and ongoing fiction projects.

Separate pages list poems that have appeared in journals and anthologies, performances and festival appearances, and fiction and prose publications.

Bruce Beaver and Rainer Maria Rilke (1993)

My Honours thesis proposed a link between Australian poet Bruce Beaver’s Rilkean spirit and the use of oceanic imagery in his poetry.

The Happy Farang (2000)

I self-published my first chapbook, The Happy Farang, in 2000, although the colophon page lists Pumpkin Press as the publisher.

Cordite Poetry Review (2001–12)

Words are bullets; poetry is code.

8 poems (2002)

My chapbook 8 poems appeared as part of a three-chapbook issue of du papa, a short lived poetry press established by Michael Farrell and Joe Hill.

OI: poewemz bii tom see (2004)

The first book published by Cordite On Demand, “OI: poewemz bii tom see” was actually written by Tom Clark, with illustrations by Charles Lake.

Marzipan: A Confection (2004)

My Masters thesis, a 30,000 word novella, describes the invention of marzipan in a fictional German town during a famine in the 1400s.

covers by nick whittock (2004)

The second book published by COD was the magnificently barmy “covers” by nick whittock, the wold’s best cricket poet.

Love Ship Demos (2005)

An as-yet-unpublished collection of poems partly funded by a New Work (Emerging Writers) grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.

Re: (2005)

A 16-page, A5 pamphlet co-written and self-published by myself and fellow Melbourne poet Andy Jackson.

Southern Review 38.1 (2005)

A special issue of Southern Review, a peer-reviewed journal, co-edited by Denise Meredyth and myself, on the subject of Online Archives and Virtual Collections.

Imaginary Cities: PC Bangs (2005)

40 prose fiction pieces posted to a special PC Bangs blog I set up as part of my 2005 Asialink residency.

Abendland (2006)

A self-published chapbook containing poems written while travelling through the United States and Europe in 2005.

Going Down Swinging 24 (2006)

Like most good things in life, my stint as co-editor of Going Down Swing­ing was all too brief, lasting just one issue.

We Will Disappear (2007)

My first poetry collection navigates the landscapes of loneliness and solitude, drawing on ten years of transformative travelogues and engaging elegies.

Dead Poem Office (2007)

I hadn’t intended to publish Dead Poem Office at all. Its title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to REM’s Dead Letter Office (1987), an album of ‘b-sides compiled’.

Morgenland (2007)

Vagabond Press published my chapbook Morgenland in 2007 in a limited edition of 100 copies.

Smoke (2007–08)

A short fictional narrative about a girl named Jet Fader and her mysterious Korean boyfriend, Duck-young Moon.

Steam (2009)

‘Steam’ is a series of prose fiction pieces I wrote while living in Gangnam, Seoul, during my second Asialink residency.

Bonfire of the Vanity Presses (2010)

My PhD thesis explored the practice of self-publishing in the field of Australian poetry and included an artefact containing six of my poetry chapbooks.

Final Friday (2010)

A 24-page A5 chap­book published privately by sydneypoetry.com and launched at a Final Friday reading in Newtown, Australia in 2010.

Övergången (2011)

A limited-edition print chapbook featuring 10 poems originally written in English and translated into Swedish.

Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012)

A joint issue, with the theme of ‘Work’, featuring poems from contributors to both magazines and editorials by Kwame Dawes and myself.

Abendland (2012)

A reformatted and revised digital edition of Abendland, originally published as a print chapbook in 2006.

Abendland II (2012)

Companion volume to Abendland (2006/2012) containing 21 poems and published as a digital-only chapbook.

Between Empires (2002/2012)

A suite of poems first published using HTML in 2002 and digitally reissued as a chapbook in 2012.

Tjugotvå (2012)

Tjugotvå contains 22 poems in English, all but one of which were first published via an email newsletter.

The Happy Farang (2012)

A digital reissue of my first ever self-published poetry chapbook.

ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature (2012)

ELMCIP stands for Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice.

Dead Poem Office (2012)

Dead Poem Office (2012) is the successor to Dead Poem Office (2007), which never ‘appeared’ as a printed chapbook.

Fem Kronor (2013)

A digital chapbook featuring 10 poems written in (or about) the town of Karlskrona in southern Sweden.

Leaves of Glass (2013)

Inspired by correspondence between Walt Whitman and Bernard O’Dowd and featuring re-imaginings of both poets’ works.

The [d/dn] wiki (2024–)

As part of the rehabilitation of Davey Dreamnation, a handpicked team of archivists, historians and flautists documents the history of DNRC Records.