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Turn the Page I fell asleep in the arms of my god, and woke in those of a burnt-out body by the banks of a roiling river. I keep dreaming I’...

Intimacy is one of the great human paradoxes, an elemental whisper that seems to possess both body and soul; colour, light shadow, smell, to...

PEASOUP Fog is a cloud that has lost the will to fly. Bill Bryson After the downpour - a peasouper. Fog so thick it is like glaucoma...

Returned I remember ceasing to exist. Not a near-death experience, no extra-corporality, I simply lost my definition, went out of focus. I c...

An interview I did with Maggie Ball is posted up at Blogtalk Radio (the tab to your immediate right). You can also find her review of the bo...

THE MONTHLY FOR AUSTRALIANS ABROAD The Monthly is now available online. 'The Online Monthly' will be published simultaneously with t...

Rattus Norvegicus It was afternoon, but you had to stay behind with all the people Who grew tired of the sun caked windows that inspired sle...

It was the poet Margie Cronin who first drew my attention to Melbourne's The Monthly magazine in one of her frequent circulars. As rela...

one bulb a pillar of cloud rests above your room of one bulb on a string, breaths in their many, thoughts stunted, too few, where you lie, c...

The Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney presents James Ley (essayist, critic, and UWS postgrad) on "...

phobiaphobia '… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses…' - Frankl...

Since I launched this blog in October of 2005 I have frequently eyed off that "next blog" button at the top of the page, but for s...

As though further proof were needed as to the parlous state of our local publishing industry, tucked away on page 3 of the SMH yesterday was...

Poetry Without Borders National Poetry Week Event Sunday 2 September Be part of a poetry reading with Chris Wallace Crabbe, Ouyang Yu, Jud...

Those few amongst you who give a squat what Justin Lowe thinks or feels won't be too surprised to know I have ambivalent feelings toward...

ON THE BEACH I watch the kids of a new nation washing the sins of old crimes in the surf of an old land reaching into the waves of the endle...

The Giramondo Publishing Company warmly invites you to the launch of the new poetry collection by Jane Gibian Ardent to be launched by Adam ...

Tanya Levin, author of People in Glass Houses - An Insider’s Story of a Life In and Out of Hillsong, will be discussing her explosive memoir...

jazz channel did lester young charlie parker dizzy gillespie and buddy rich at the philharmonic in 1953 know that they would be the sound tr...

Black Inc. Books Australian Small Publisher of the Year! The 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards were presented by the Minister for Arts an...