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 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 →

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 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 →

I woke up this morning to the best news ever! My poem, empty nest, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing in the Open Poetry section! The other poets shortlisted for the prize this year are Judith Bishop, Gayelene Carbis, Yaron Fisher, Helen Hopcroft, Susanne Kennedy,... Read more →

I am feeling a real shift in my energies in the last couple of weeks. After having crashed and burned in January, I'm rising from the ashes ready to fashion a new self. But who will I be? Okay, that's a tad dramatic. Perhaps it's more about fashioning a new... Read more →

Image Credit: TextaQueen It's been a big year of w... Read more →