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 →

Late last year I had not one, but two poems, long listed for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize! It was a huge honour to have my work recognised by the judges. Landline is a poem about old friends who you've know forever but hardly find the time... Read more →

I had just decided to stopped entering poetry competitions. It's expensive and demoralising. I figured that my poetry (still) wasn't good enough to be at prize winning standard and I should stop throwing good money away after bad and instead spend it on something better like, oh I don't know,... Read more →

While I was in Perth for the Perth Poetry Festival 2023, I attended every workshop that was being held while I was there as well as teaching my own workshop, Beyond Words, a Liminal Spaces workshop. Western Australian poet and spoken word artist, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, summed up it nicely when... Read more →

Complicit: A Visual History of ‘Australia’ Since Invasion is my first foray into what I am calling text art. I've been thinking about Australia's history and the way it and any history warps and shifts over time depending on who is telling the story. When I was in primary school... Read more →

Seeing poetry in other languages really excites me. I only speak English with a smattering of German, Spanish and Sinhala (which I cannot read, yet!) so I can't understand the letters I am reading. Nevertheless, my eyes drink in the beauty of those different words while my mind wonders if... Read more →

I am so chuffed that the judges shortlisted my poem, At the Foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, for the Jean Stone Award given by the NSW Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers. It's always an amazing moment when your fellow writers see something special in your work and I... Read more →

I don't think I'm ever going to grow tired of hearing that a poem of mine has been shortlisted for a poetry award. This time around it's my poem, At the Foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, that has been shortlisted for the Jean Stone Award run by the Fellowship of... Read more →

I'm not sure what is about certain poems. You know the ones - they've got something about them that you feel says something important. So you keep dusting them off and sending them in to journals and competitions hoping that they will find the reader they're looking for. Way back... Read more →