My new book, Exotic Matter, is coming out early next year and my publisher Liquid Amber Press, has put up a terrific pre-publication offer. Put in your order now and save! Also of course you will get my undying gratitude and will be supporting a really wonderful independent poetry publisher. The stunning cover is from a painting by the amazing Brian Purcell (the work includes a few ekphrastic poems based on Brian’s work as well). To go straight to the offer visit: https://liquidamberpress.com.au/product/exotic-matter-prepub-offer/ Stay tuned for a bunch of in-person and online launch events!
If you’re a reviewer, please let me know as I’m gathering a list together for advanced review copies.
I’m honoured to be launching Denise O’Hagan’s new poetry collection What the Mirror Tells at the Don Bank Museum, 6 Napier Street, North Sydney on 29 November in the afternoon. Denise was Writer in Residence at the Museum for 2024, and much of the book was written there. You can find out more about What the Mirror Tells at: 
I’m pleased to have my poem “False Promises on Petals” or “Falsa Promeso sur Petaloj” published in TRANS LA FOSAĴO: Across the Ditch — the Flying Islands’ Esperanto Anthology of Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Poetry. The book, which will be available from the Flying Islands 
My little flash fiction “Blue” has been published in the very long-running and terrific publication Live Encounters. This particular 17th Anniversary issue includes work from writers I deeply admire and I’m honoured to have my work ‘in conversation’ with theirs. You can download the full issue .pdf here: 
I’ve been a member of the 
On Sunday the 15th of November, at Woollahra Library, I will be launching the wonderful new book, Dislocations, from acclaimed poet 
On Saturday the 31st of October, I’ll be hosting a session with titled “Long Journey Home: The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs in wartime Italy” with historian 
One of the many nice things about poetry is that it tends not to have a use-by date for publishers. It stays out there and you never know who will pick it up or when (often with fiction you have a limited window to be ‘new’ and then it’s rarely sent out or even read unless it’s a classic or you win a prize and your back catalogue gets promoted).