I’m delighted to have my poem, ‘Phalaris / Perennial’, appear in Best of Australian Poems 2024 (Australian Poetry). Special thanks to the editors, Shastra Deo and Kate Lilley. And a special shout out to my fellow South Australians who also made the anthology: Ken Bolton, Aidan Coleman, Jill Jones, and Cath Kenneally. Best of Australian Poems 2024 is available online, and from all the best bookstores.

I’m delighted to have my poem ‘June’ (from ‘Public Savant’, my 365-line poem sequence, written across a year at a rate of one-line per day) appear in Issue 1 of SPLINTER JOURNAL – South Australia’s brand-new literary journal. Writers featured in Issue 1 include: Dom Symes, George Titheridge, Jayda Wilson, Jill Jones, Magdalena Ball, Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí, Paris Rosemont, Sara M Saleh, and Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes. A big thank you to Farrin Foster and Stephanie Mylan, who handled the editorial work very elegantly, and to Writers SA. Copies of Issue 1 are available from Splinter’s website (HERE).

I’m so delighted to be supporting Anna Ransom this Saturday night at Ern Malley for the “Tides” EP’s national tour. The songs from the EP have been my companions all year. Anna’s music is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube, but come along on Saturday for a special night at Ern’s. (Ern Malley, 137 Magill Rd, Stepney – Saturday, 16 November 2024 from 8 p.m. Entry is free.)

Two of my poems, ‘Red Creek’ and ‘Carte Blanche’, have been published in Living Systems: Poetry from Asia Pacific. Living Systems marks 25 years of independent small press publishing by Vagabond Press, and showcases poets from Australia and across the Asia Pacific, with over 400 pages of poetry from 170 poets and translators – from Australia, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Singapore, America, New Zealand, Mexico, and more. Copies of the anthology are available HERE from Vagabond Press’s website, including as a limited-edition hardback (HERE).

I’m delighted to be appearing as the guest feature artist for SA Heat 1 of the Australian Poetry Slam 2024, hosted by Spoken Word SA. Heat 1 is on Saturday, 3 August 2024, at the State Library of South Australia. Further details HERE.

A new piece from my long poem ‘Public Savant’, which was written at a rate of 1-new-line-per-day during 2018, and which was published earlier this month in Volume 3 of AGONY Magazine, now appears HERE on the AGONY Substack. This is the poem’s ‘October’ section, here titled ‘The Flaneur’s Pharmakon’. The ‘May’ and ‘July’ sections also appear on the substack. Print editions of AGONY are available HERE from the magazine’s website. Many thanks to Sean Haylock, Editor in Chief.

A new piece from my long poem ‘Public Savant’, which was written at a rate of 1-new-line-per-day during 2018, has been published in Volume 3 of AGONY Magazine. Volume 3 includes work by Marc Barnes, Yvette Caul, Ed Feser, Mark Freer, Peter Goldsworthy, Sean Haylock, Stan Mahoney, James Donald Forbes McCann, Todd Mercier, Justin Murphy, Andrei Plesu, Glen Smith, James Matthew Wilson, and Eshna Yolcan, with impeccable design work by Margot Holbert. Copies are available HERE from the magazine’s website. Many thanks to Sean Haylock, Editor in Chief.

My poem ‘Magnolia grandiflora’, which was published in August 2023 in Volume 1 of AGONY Magazine, appears on the AGONY Substack. I’ve long been a proponent of the idea that there’s a circle of Heaven reserved for people who plant magnolias. Print editions are available HERE from the magazine’s website. Many thanks to Sean Haylock, Editor in Chief, and my fellow members of the editorial team.

My poem ‘Public Savant’, part of a longer poem of the same name, which was written at a rate of 1-new-line-per-day during 2018, appears HERE on the new AGONY Substack. Print editions of AGONY Magazine Vol. 2, where the poem first appeared, are available HERE from the magazine’s website. Many thanks to Sean Haylock, Editor in Chief, and my fellow members of the editorial team.