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With all the talk in New South Wales of trying to resuscitate the rail infrastructure, especially now the drought appears to have broken and...

FROM THIS BROKEN HILL Meuse Press has released an e-anthology titled “From This Broken Hill” – an unique combination of writing from s...

After John Tranter, on Painting the Whole Sky There is something to the art of painting that makes talking about it holding we...

A friend of Master Cano’s, a bishop, had died and left the old man a trunk full of manuscripts, although it would seem the manner of the...

Postcard   I would write you an elegy about love if I could transcribe the way your hands  would curl silence around reason...

not just you but a lover's camera poses everything: from the pack of longbeach 20s crushed into the stone wall ...

I am dizzy with the bushfire wind and shooing away fat yuletide flies sated on drought carcasses, so for the first time in a whil...

Well I had one solid vote on the question of prizes and festivals and their intrinsic value, and that was a solid NO. Meaning...

One of the big movers at my local remainder store, London's Kathy Lette, has ventured a step closer to the zeitgeist by raising that ol...

Strange Meeting   It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Throug...

Earlier this year I trumpeted young ex-pat poet Emma Jones' first collection, The Striped World, and so not only am I happy to announce ...

I received a welcome gift in my inbox recently from the Chicago poet, John Hospodka. Titled "South Side Trilogy", it is a fascinat...

Dorothy Porter was never going to go out with a whimper. The Australian poet who once claimed to write best to the tribal din of Melbour...

I am beholden to my daemons to presage this article by stating for the record that I am usually wrong. Considering the state of law...

BONDI LINE Come join in an exploration of Bondi Beach with 3 of Australia’s leading poets joanne burns  Brook Emery Les Wic...

Received my copy of Issue One of the new Perth literary quarterly, dotdotdash , today and I felt a charge of energy waft out as I opened t...

Reading Anna Goldsworthy's article about the Australian National Academy of Music got me thinking about a great many things, but mostly ...