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'ticker', a poem from my latest book, In the Not-too-distant Present, available in paperback & ebook (PDF). The book will be launched on 2 December at the Taproom, Castlemaine.

From the poem 'a final room', first published in Westerly and now included in my new book, In the Not-too-distant Present, available in paperback and ebook (PDF).

So here it is, finally: my third book of poems, In the Not-too-distant Present. Now available in paperback and ebook (PDF). Launch details coming soon. Thanks again to Jill Jones for the endorsement on the back cover. The cover image is by Erica Fischer. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

This year’s anthology showcases many poets who (like myself) live in regional Victoria. Great to read fresh work from friends, idols, and (to me at least) some intriguing new voices.

It's taken over a year to pull this together, drawing upon the presentation I gave to the Lacan Circle of Australia last year, as well as the work of Leon Brenner, whose encouragement has been much appreciated.

So I wrote a thing about using chatbots for drug-related/harm reduction queries.

It was a joy to read and review Dominique Hecq's chapbook of prose poems, Endgame with No Ending.

Recently I had a conversation about emotions with philosopher Tristram Oliver-Skuse. For me his philosophy is particularly close to home, in that he lives around the corner. 🤔

Acute, confronting writing by Anna Jacobson.

"As an autistic person, I’m suspicious of the term ‘neurotypical’, in the same way that I don’t see ‘normal’ as a helpful category for understanding differences between humans, their mental life, and the ways in which they experience and act in the world."