Seething since 2000*
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…
‘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 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…
In 2002 I spent three weeks travelling in the USA, the UK and Germany. During my travels I wrote a series of poems, which I later decided to compile under the title Between Empires. The poems in Between Empires were…
