In 2013, two years after leaving Karlskrona (where I undertook postdoctoral research on electronic literature), I compiled a chapbook featuring 10 poems written in (or about) the town. ‘Fem kronor’ means, literally ‘five kronor’ (the krona, or SEK, being the…
Dead Poem Office (2012) is the successor to Dead Poem Office (2007), which never ‘appeared’ as a printed chapbook. Dead Poem Office (2012), originally published via Scribd in late 2012, contains thirty-odd poems in English, all of which previously appeared…
In 2012, as part of a weird burst of activity, I decided to reissue The Happy Farang, my first self-published chapbook. I had self-published The Happy Farang in 2000, at a time when I was just finding my feet, both…
Tjugotvå contains 22 poems in English, all but one of which were first published via an email newsletter. In 2011 I set up an email-based newsletter project, ‘Poem of the week!’, with a total of 21 poems sent to subscribers…
Between Empires is a collection of poems composed in 2002 while travelling through the USA, the UK and Germany, and first published online in 2003. In 2012, as part of a burst of reissues, I re-edited and compiled the book,…
Abendland II contains twenty-one poems originally written while travelling in the United States and Europe in 2005 but never compiled in book form. It is a companion volume to Abendland (2006/2012). Of the poems in the collection, only one, ‘Travelling…
Abendland first appeared in 2006, and contains twenty-one poems written while travelling through North America and Europe in 2005. The poems in Abendland were written between July and August 2005. The text of this second edition was reformatted and revised.…
‘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…
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…
