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Brianna Bullens has written a terrific review of High Wire Step at the wonderful Plumwood Mountain: “It is a collection full of radical empathy, understanding a shared vulnerability with each other. It claims multispecies alignments with animals—bees, cats, wolves, pigs, … Continue reading →

Beth Spencer’s wonderful review of High Wire Step has been published at Rochford Street Press: “So how might a personal approach to re-imprinting our past apply then to the planetary Anthropocenic grief? This is a question raised for me by … Continue reading →

The wonderful Beth Spencer interviews me about my poetry book High Wire Step for the Climactic Network’s new Artbreaker show.  You can listen or download the show, which includes me reading several of my poems, talking about writing through the … Continue reading →

My poem “Asterion” has recently been published at the wonderful FemAsia Magazine. FemAsia is a monthly online magazine that focuses on issues and events which impact on girls and women in our contemporary world. This issue is full of new work … Continue reading →

My poem “Watagan Walk” has been published in Ginninderra’s Press’s latest anthology Mountain Secrets, edited by Joan Fenny.  A version of the poem was also published in my full-length poetry collection Unmaking Atoms.  Mountain Secrets, an anthology of over 150 poems by Ginninderra … Continue reading →

The wonderful Not Very Quiet is a twice yearly online journal for women’s poetry which is beautifully edited/curated by Sandra Renew, Moya Pacey, and a fabulous series of guest editors. Issue 5 was guest edited by Tricia Dearborn with a … Continue reading →

My poem, “Linguistic Junkyard”, has been published in Australian Poetry Journal 9.1. This rather wonderful issue was guest-edited by John Kinsella, and includes some 100 pages of poetry written around the theme of resistance. The collection includes many poems by … Continue reading →

I’m very pleased to have my poem “Wing Feathers” included in the 2019 Raining Poetry in Adelaide series. In collaboration with the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (University of Adelaide), the chosen poems are poems are temporarily tagged … Continue reading →

My poem “Negative Mass” was joint winner (with the wonderful Gillian Swain) of the Maclean’s Booksellers award in the Hunter Writers Centre Grieve competition, and has been published in the anthology along with many other wonderful stories and poems. You … Continue reading →

My poem, “Art of the Deal” from High Wire Step, has just been published at the wonderful Other Terrain Journal, Issue 7. The issue, themed #WeToo focuses on the themes of injustic and exclusion narratives in our world and is … Continue reading →