Latest news: Throughout 2008 and 2009 I have been announcing the publication of my New and Selected Poems by Salt Publishing in the UK; unfortunately this will have to wait until Salt recovers from the effects of the GEC :-(.

I have recently published a collection, Braided Lands, with Ginninderra Press (ISBN 978-1-74027-591-0). It is now available from Ginninderra Press (scroll down to the Ls), or bookshops, and costs $20.00Aus.

Braided Lands contains 43 of my recent poems, (the New and Selected will contain a further 29 (as well as selections from my previous collections)).

A poem of mine, ‘Rain in March’ was published in The Best Australian Poems 2009 (Melbourne, Black Inc), in November 2009. This poem is also published in Braided Lands.

These pages are mainly about my poetry, but you can also read about my publications (including a couple of complete PDFs of unpublished novels), or look at my Thesis.

I have a page of new poems which are not in either in Braided Lands or New and Selected, here . As a bonus, each poem has one of my photos accompanying.

I have been writing poetry since 1986 and regard it as a vocation. In that time I have had four published collections, have given poetry readings, and had many poems published in journals in the UK, the US and Australia, and on the Internet. My poetry has also been translated into, and published in, Croatian, French, Chinese and Spanish

I am thinking of adding thoughts on poetry and writing poetry to these pages, which will be useful to other poets. However, the difficulty is finding the time.....

Keep on checking back, and I hope you like what is already here.

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