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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,…
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…
In July 2009, as my PhD thesis was in its final stages of production, I discovered that one of my chapbooks had been archived by the National Library of Australia.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, 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…
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…
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