Seething since 2000*
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…
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…
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…
Marzipan: A Confection is the title of my Master of Arts (Research) Thesis in Creative Writing, undertaken at the University of Melbourne between 2002 and 2004. The Thesis, a 30,000 word novella, describes the invention of marzipan in a fictional…
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…
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…
My first chapbook, The Happy Farang, was self-published in 2000, although the colophon page lists Pumpkin Press as the publisher. The making of The Happy Farang The poems in this chapbook were all written while travelling in Thailand and Laos…
As part of my Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney I completed an Honours year in Australian Literature in 1993. In addition to coursework, I completed a 15,000 word thesis, entitled Bruce Beaver and Rainer Maria Rilke.…