Next poetry gig!

Come and hear me per­form the poems influ­enced by my her­it­age at the In Other Words poetry fest­ival with Judith Rodrig­uez and Joan Davis on Sunday from 2.00–2.45pm in the ses­sion “Women’s Own Readings”. The venue is the Centre for Ideas, Fed­er­a­tion Hall,...

It could always be worse

It’s rare I’ll say I’m glad there are Aus­trali­ans in war zones, but when I read art­icles like this I think about how much worse it might be if they wer­en’t. Aus­trali­ans had to ‘red card’ US sol­diers to stop them killing (even more) civil­ians? US...

Experiment

I have a little pro­ject under con­struc­tion… a hyper­text poem. I think it may be ready for a public outing… Present­ing a tale of chance and magic, love, a mask-maker, a star-gazer and a fire-dancer…