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In July 2009, as my PhD thesis was in its final stages of production, I discovered that one of my chapbooks had been archived by the National Library of Australia.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