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My second full-length poetry collection, Leaves of Glass, was released by Sydney-based poetry publisher Puncher and Wattmann. Inspired by actual correspondence between Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Bernard O’Dowd (1866–1953), Leaves of Glass features re-imaginings of both poets’ works. Leaves of…
In 2011, I moved to Karlskrona in Blekinge, Sweden, to take up a 12-month post-doctoral researcher position with the ELMCIP project team based at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH). ELMCIP stands for Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation…
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,…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…