Why publish stuff which no one reads?
I thought that heading might catch your eye. People outside of the poetry world often express surprise that I devote such a large amount…
Rug up for a poetry reading at Sappho Books and Cafe
51 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 7 pm Tuesday, 13 August 2013 Julie Chevalier, Berndt Selheim, James Stuart, Ali Smith
Darger: His Girls won the Alec Bolton Prize for best unpublished poetry manuscript 2011
Darger: His Girls won the Alec Bolton Prize for best unpublished poetry manuscript 2011 and is shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Poetry…
Peter Kirkpatrick’s Westering wins the William Baylebridge Prize
Peter Kirkpatrick's Westering has shared the 2007 William Baylebridge Prize with Simon West's The Yellow Gum's Conversion.
Simon West’s First Names Wins the William Baylebridge Prize
Simon West's First Names has shared the 2007 William Baylebridge Prize with Peter Kirkpatrick's Westering.
On Mooing at Poetry Readings
One of my biggest gripes about the poetry scene is how audiences behave, specifically the way they moo when a poet reads out a…
Plagiarism epidemic
The poetry world in the UK has been rocked by two recent plagiarism scandals. In the first, which was exposed in the Guardian on…
WA Premier’s Poetry Prize 2013 shortlist
We have two titles shortlisted for this years WA Premier's Poetry Prize: Julie Chevalier's Darger: His Girls and Bonny Cassidy's Certain Fathoms. Fabulous news:…