Seething since 2000*
Abendland II contains twenty-one poems originally written while travelling in the United States and Europe in 2005 but never compiled in book form. It is a companion volume to Abendland (2006/2012). Of the poems in the collection, only one, ‘Travelling…
Abendland first appeared in 2006, and contains twenty-one poems written while travelling through North America and Europe in 2005. The poems in Abendland were written between July and August 2005. The text of this second edition was reformatted and revised.…
I met Kwame Dawes, the editor of Lincoln, Nebraska-based journal Prairie Schooner, at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2011. Following the festival, Kwame invited me, as the editor of Cordite Poetry Review, to collaborate on a joint issue,…
‘Övergången’ is a Swedish word for ‘transition’. What better word, then, for a chapbook featuring 10 poems originally written in English and translated into Swedish? Övergången was self-published as a limited-edition chapbook in Sweden in 2011. I’d been invited to…
This 24-page A5 chapbook was published privately by sydneypoetry.com and launched at a Final Friday reading in Newtown, Australia (October 2010). Both sydneypoetry.com and Final Friday were initiated by Adrian Wiggins, co-founder of Cordite Poetry Review. The launch event was…
My PhD thesis, entitled Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Poetry, was approved in 2010, and was undertaken at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia between 2005 and 2009. Here’s the abstract: This thesis…
