• I live in a rented house, and the lease ends next month. A couple of months before this happens, the real-estate agent ask me to sign a form saying whether or not I want to renew, and for how long. The form includes a warning that there may be a rent increase, but it doesn’t… Read more

  • I was asked to write a poem of up to ten lines in response to each of four visual works by artists with disabilities. “this is my pink / tint of spiders singing / my nightwings / ruffling in the violin wind” “We be three confident chicks / with midnight feathers ’n’ legs like sticks” Read more

  • Google are really trying hard to promote Google+, have you noticed? The trouble is that compared to Facebook, Google+ is kind of like Canberra as compared to Sydney. For those not in Australia, Canberra is a planned city, the capital, where most people work for the government. It’s neat and tidy and well-behaved. It’s excellent… Read more

  • Stranger

    In India a stranger, 23, gang-raped, lies bleeding on the roadside as people pass In Australia a stranger, 2 or 3, sobs and shrieks three houses along as I watch the news Read more

  • List of 2012 publications. Choral score, zine, articles, poems in anthologies and journals. Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, WA Poets, Cottonmouth, Regime, Tuesday Poem, poetrymagazine.com, The Mozzie, Creatrix Read more

  • One of the best things I’ve done during 2012—no, the best thing I’ve done—is throwing away my to-do list. When I say to-do list, I don’t mean a few odd jobs scratched on a scrap of paper clipped to the fridge door. “Fix the tap”, “Call the lawnmowing woman”, that sort of thing. I mean… Read more