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Sydney-based poetry publisher Puncher and Wattmann put out my second full-length poetry collection, Leaves of Glass, in 2013. 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…
‘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…
In July 2009, as my PhD thesis was in its final stages of production, I discovered that one of my chapbooks had been archived by the National Library of Australia.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)…
Papertiger Media published my first full-length poetry collection, We Will Disappear, in 2007. It was launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. We Will Disappear navigates the landscapes of loneliness and solitude, drawing on ten years…
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 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…
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…
