I love the editing process — the toing and froing, the umming and ahing, The Overture & the Underscore.

I am extremely fortunate to be working with the deeply intuitive and questioning Felicity Plunkett, poet, critic and Poetry Editor at University of Queensland Press.

And now, I have emailed The Staysails to UQP for further editing, typesetting, etc., and am thrilled to be working with the lovely Ian See, who I met at Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Writers Festivals 2015, and others at UQP.

Happy to have a couple of poems — one about the moon; the other, eggs — in Snorkel #22 which also includes poetry by Brook Emery, Rita Masae, Ali Znaidi, Jane Frank, Mark Young, PT Davidson, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Grant Cochrane, Chris Stewart, Alex McKeown and Johanna Emeney, as well as an excerpt from a play by Ken Duncum.

My thanks to editor Cath Vidler.

It is amazing how much my “sits” help … They clear the mind of that surplus of misery which is entirely subjective and unnecessary … I begin to understand what T. S. Eliot means in “Ash Wednesday”: “Teach us to care and not to care.”

Christopher Isherwood, Diaries Volume One: 1939 – 1960

Over the moon to see my poetry debut, The Staysails (UQP, 2016) included in Jane Sullivan’s Sydney Morning Herald article ‘Books for the year: The treats in store from Australia and overseas’.

Thanks to Nigel Featherstone, friend and writer, for the heads-up.

Issue 12 (December 2015) is out now!

Poetry by Karen Andrews, Chloë Callistemon, Joyce Chng, Natalie D-Napoleon, Benjamin Dodds, Dave Drayton, Phillip Hall, Mark William Jackson, Gareth Jenkins, Angela Meyer, Edith Speers and David Stavanger.

You can read my editorial here and buy the issue here. 

Rabbit Poetry Journal Issue 15 (Biography part 1) includes my cento ‘The Cure’, other poems by Kent MacCarter, Vanessa Page and Melody Paloma, and Jessica Wilkinson’s interview with Julie Chevalier.

Issue 16 (Biography part 2) includes poems by Elizabeth Allen, Ian Gibbins and Karina Quinn, Dave Drayton’s essay ‘Green works mad or, how I translated one of Georges Perec’s heterogrammatic poems’, and Melinda Bufton’s review of John Hawkes’ Aurelia, one of the first four collections from Cordite Poetry Review’s new print publishing arm, Cordite Books.

You can buy Rabbit Poetry Journal Issues 15 and 16 here.

My review of Liz McQuilkin’s first full-length poetry collection The Nonchalant Garden (Walleah Press, 2014) has been published at Verity La.

Many thanks Robyn Cadwallader for elegant pruning and aster-like patience and Michele Seminara for her bluebell-eye.

I’ll be reading at What About Me? at Queensland Poetry Festival in the Judith Wright Centre’s Shopfront at 10.30 a.m. Sunday August 30.

Daniel Grey, Anna Jacobson, Tessa Rose & Yasmin Smith will also be reading at this free event.

My thanks to QPF’s co-directors Annie Te Whiu & David Stavanger.

Full program here.

Issue Ten (June 2015) is out now!

Fiction, poetry & creative non-fiction from Australia & the world.

Head to the website to purchase your copy.