Projects

Morgenland (2007)

‘Morgenland’ is an archaic German word for ‘the East’ which translates literally as ‘morning land’. Morgenland was published by Vagabond Press in 2007. The poems in Morgenland were all written in the Republic of Korea and Japan in 2005–06 as…

Dead Poem Office (2007)

In July 2009, as my PhD thesis was in its final stages of production, I discovered that one of my chapbooks had been archived by the National Library of Australia. But it had never been published. Dead Poem Office (2007)…

We Will Disappear (2007)

We Will Disappear, my first full-length collection of poetry, was published by papertiger media (Brisbane /Chiang Mai) in 2007 and launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. We Will Disappear navigates the landscapes of loneliness and…

Going Down Swinging 24 (2006)

Like most good things in life, my stint as co-editor of Going Down Swing­ing, Australia’s finest lit­er­ary mag­a­zine, was all too brief. I came on board for just one issue but the expe­ri­ence was fan­tas­tic: we selected over 140 pages of…

Abendland (2006)

Abendland is an archaic term for ‘the West’ and translates from the German (roughly) as ‘evening land’.  Abendland was self-published in print in 2006. The poems in Abendland were all written while travelling in the United States and Europe in…

Imaginary Cities: PC Bangs (2005)

In 2005 I travelled to Seoul, Republic of Korea, as an Asialink resident. While I was there I undertook a writing and photography project that involved visiting Korean internet gaming rooms (PC Bangs), writing about an imaginary city in each…

Southern Review 38.1 (2005)

In 2005, Denise Meredyth and I, wearing our Swinburne hats, co-edited a special issue of Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture. Southern Review is a fully-refereed interdisciplinary journal of communication, politics and culture published by RMIT University, Melbourne. The theme…

Re: (2005)

Re: was a 16-page A5 pamphlet co-written with Andy Jackson in 2005. We contributed four poems each, although all poems were unattributed. The desire to make this book object stemmed in part from our involvement in performances, recordings and the…

Love Ship Demos (2005)

In late 2004 I was lucky enough to receive a New Work (Emerging Writers) grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. This allowed me to spend several months in 2005 producing new poems. The results, which I compiled under…