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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, to be published online. Cordite–Prairie Schooner Fusion: Work (2012) Our collaboration became the first of…
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 pretty intimate: a group of people crowded into Adrian’s lounge room paid me the ultimate…
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 poetry and prose, along with a bumper eighty page comics section, making this issue one…
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 of the issue was Online Archives and Virtual Collections and it contains our editorial, nine…
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 poetry scene. We named the pamphlet Re: in honour of a series of emails we’d…
In 2004 I had the bright idea of starting up a poetry imprint for Cordite Poetry Review: Cordite On Demand (or COD). It was a short-lived venture, to say the least, but we did publish two books, and also set up an equally short-lived website. The second book published by COD was the magnificently barmy covers by nick…
In 2004 I had the bright idea of starting up a poetry imprint for Cordite Poetry Review: Cordite On Demand (or COD). It was a short-lived venture, to say the least, but we did publish two books, and also set up an equally short-lived website. The first book published by COD was the idiosyncratically titled…
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. 8 poems, together with with Melbourne poet Claire Gaskin’s 9 poems and Slovenian poet Primoz Cucnik’s 4 poems, was staple-bound individually in A4 format and compiled loosely in a…
