I usually like to publish my own book reviews at Compulsive Reader, however, when I was invited to review Daughters, a poetry book by noted Taiwanese author Ling Yü, translated from the Chinese by Nicholas Y. H. Wong for the prestigious Asian Studies Review, I couldn’t resist. My review is now up and as an author I get 50 free e-prints. If you’d like to read the review in its entirety (it isn’t long) and find out more about Ling Yü, who won the 2025 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, you can click on this link here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PMPXGWYMTN6EGGHFGYKP/full?target=10.1080/10357823.2025.2604170
I’ll be launching Ron Atilano’s new book New Ordinance for the Dead as part of Flying Islands new book launch at the first Poetry at the Pub on a special Tuesday night, The Grand Hotel, 32 Church St, Newcastle, Tuesday 20th January at 7:30 pm. Also being launched is Blimmin’ Wimmin by Dael Allison; and Food of Love – Concert Pieces by Kit Kelen.
The new rejuvenated 
2025 is the International Year of Quantum and Science Write Now has created a phenomenal issue to celebrate. I’m so pleased that my poem “Eastern Whip Bird” has been included as part of this. The poem was first published in my book The Density of Compact Bone, published by Ginninderra Press, and I’ve also included a bit of information abut the poem and an audio here: 
Editor Sanjeev Sethi invited me to send some unpublished poems for his specially curated issue of Hooghly Review titled “Fictile Feelings”. I sent in a few poems for Sanjeev to choose from and the one selected is titled “Green Velvet”, a poem about a real sofa.
