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  • Book announcement: Transition Vamps

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    I’m happy to announce that Cordite Publishing Inc., through its poetry imprint Cordite Books, will publish my third full-length collection, Transition Vamps, in 2026.

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  • My (northern) summer reads for 2024

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    One of the first things I do whenever I move to a new place (trust me, I’ve lived in enough cities, towns and villages to know what I’m talking about here) is to visit — and join — the local library. There’s something comforting and consistent about libraries the world over that grounds me. Growing…

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  • Simple

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    As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.

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  • Leaves of Glass: it’s real!

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    Seven years in the making. Trans-continental in its composition. Green as a blade of grass in its wrapping. Leaves of Glass is real.

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  • Smokin’ Leaves of Glass!

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    I’m really glad to announce that my second full-length poetry collection, Leaves of Glass, will soon be released by smokin’ Sydney-based publisher Puncher and Wattmann. Long-term readers of this site would know that said collection has taken a few years to finalise but the wait has surely been worth it. The book, which was inspired…

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  • The Next Big Thang

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    Poet Ivy Alvarez, whose latest book is Mortal, invited me to participate in this self-interview blog meme called The Next Big Thing, where I get to share a little more about my next book. Writers participating get to answer 8-10 questions (about their book/blog/their writing), and then tag 5 other writer friends to post their…

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  • From the archives: “He carried oranges”

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    I have absolutely no idea what this prose fragment was supposed to be about but I do know that it’s been fifteen years or so since I cared one way or the other. I was probably reading too much Borges at the time. The good folks at Going Down Swinging have cross-posted this piece on…

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