My biggest highlight of PAX Australia, the ultimate in games conventions, was spending three whole days playing board games with complete strangers. At PAX, designers, distributors and publishers have booths set up with their games waiting to be demonstrated and played. It's the ultimate in try before you buy -... Read more →

I’ve been playing games with the Lovely G and our girls for the last eleven years or so. I can remember when I first researched what games to buy and discovered Carcasone. I asked my Mum to get it for the girls for Christmas and then got completely overwhelmed by... Read more →

I had such a fabulous time yesterday at the Kathleen Syme library in Carlton, teaching my poetry workshop, Beyond the Page, to a lovely group of people. Beyond the Page is a different kind of poetry workshop. Instead of analysing poems written by other people and then trying to write... Read more →

I'm doing some last minute workshop preparation for today's poetry workshop, Beyond the Page, at the Kathleen Syme library in Carlton. If you're looking g for something to do on this gorgeous spring day, why not come along and write some poetry? Get your tickets here. I hope to see... Read more →

I’m running a poetry workshop, Beyond the Page, on Saturday 7 September in Carlton as part of the Sonic Poetry Festival 2024. If you're feeling uninspired or stuck in a poetry rut, come along and learn how to neurohack your writing through sound, movement and drawing. Through exercises and writing... Read more →

I drove up into the Dandenong ranges earlyish on Sunday morning for my second poetry workshop of the weekend. This time it was Haiku in the Hills with AJ D'Costa, another Sonic Poetry Festival event which makes three in three days! I love poetry month - there's so many amazing... Read more →

Exploring new places is one of my absolute favourite things to do. All those new little nooks and crannies to explore. Those new cafes and bookshops to discover. The hidden gems just waiting to be found. On the weekend I was lucky enough to be able to combine my twin... Read more →

I’m so excited by my copy of Anthropocene. It’s a chapbook published by the Queensland Writers Centre that contains four of my poems. Only two copies were made - this one and one other that was sold to raise funds for the Queensland Writers Centre. You know I love limited... Read more →

Can you feel it? Or rather can you smell it? There's something about this time of year, when the flowers open their buds and show off their shiny new petals. With their opening, comes the heavenly smell of nectar borne on the breeze. It's heady stuff I tell you and... Read more →

I'm coming out of hibernation and starting to go on morning walks again. I had the best of intentions this winter to do more exercise but honestly the lure of the heater was far too strong. It's so good to be moving my body again and drinking in the lush... Read more →