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For reaons completely unfathomable to me, Google has decided to butcher their blogging program, and until I can find my way around the ten t...

I have withdrawn The Great Big Show from public circulation while I finalise its publication and release. I thank those people who showed ...

Please note this correction to Friday’s March & April events information. Bookings for these events at Gleebooks can only be made by cal...

Nicolas Rothwell in conversation with Murray Waldren, literary editor of The Australian newspaper. For several years now, Nicolas Rothwell h...

For the past year I have been poring over books and maps and unpublished diaries and digging deep into my troubled soul in an attempt to pie...

The Writing and Society Research Group is pleased to present the first in its 2007 seminar series - Samar Habib On Female Homosexuality in ...

THREE HOURS I have been used to adoration only at night. The quiet, the soft places of thought and response, analysis and ...

BOOK OF NUMBERS Should I find something more than a number— a name that might have been; a word that might remain once the name has left a s...

Churches of the developed world (a partly found poem) to light a candle drop any coin into the slot (more coins may be required for longer p...

Leviathan A storm, bad ideas and urges. Lightening, blinding silver-purple flashes. On the line next to the forgotten laundry, a neighbor’s ...

I haven't forgotten my threat to start posting excerpts from my verse novel, so poets and poetry lovers consider yourselves on notice. J...

In keeping with the Christmas spirit, Shane Warne, history's greatest leg-spinner, has given the Test batsmen of the world an early pres...

Some of you may be wondering what I've been doing since my last posting. Well, amongst other things I have been savouring the delights o...

Late last year Giramondo published three collections of essays by distinguished Australian authors - Gerald Murnane's Invisible Yet Endu...

Political poem this is not a political poem I don't write political poetry about banda aceh and inappropriate tsunami aid like boxes of ...

Gifts The intricate, filigree traceries left by a wave on wet sand The round, curled, sweet shape of a shell Filled with the sea's whis...

Black Inc. November Events The Best Australian Essays 2006 edited by Drusilla Modjeska The Best Australian Stories 2006 edited by Robert Dre...

Unified Field Theory You are my unified field where a billion flowers shine like the stars and turn into butterflies. I observed your format...

Between Tolstoy walked out into the snow. Chekhov may or may not have had champagne. Sylvia Plath neatly folded a dishcloth in the oven for ...

5th Australian Poetry Festival: Between! September 1-10, 2006 The Australian Poetry Festival (APF) is a significant biennial program of sti...