Poems in Cordite

Cordite 36: Electronica is now online and available for your viewing pleasure at:

http://cordite.org.au/electronica/
Look out for my two poems "Animal Light" and "We Are Called"

I am currently working on a commission for The Red Room Company for their Clubs & Societies project. I will be reading at The Queensland Poetry Festival 27 August at 10.30am, Theatre Space Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley.

I will be reading at:
Readings Carlton
309 Lygon Street, Carlton VIC 3053 (03) 9347 6633 ‎
on 11 July 2011 at 6.30pm


Pages + Poetry is Readings Carlton's monthly poetry night. It happens on the second Monday night of the month and is curated by Melbourne poet, Luke Beesley.

There will be wine, and we start 630pm sharp ...myself and...

Petra White is a Melbourne poet. Her first book, The Incoming Tide, John Leonard Press (2007) was shortlisted for a Queensland Premier’s Prize. Her second book, The Simplified World (2010), was joint winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.

Jamie King-Holden lives in Geelong and studies literature at Deakin University. Her first book of poetry, 'Chemistry' was published by Whitmore press (2011). Jamie co-edits the literary zine 'Windmills.

Happily Ever After

altered book 'The Red Shoes/Dance of Death' on show at the John Paynter Gallery in Newcastle, NSW

Brisbane Floods

I flew into Brisbane on Sunday 9 January after three weeks in Britain. The pilot on our descent said the weather was not good. It wasn't raining as I got out of the terminal but the humidity hit me like a torpid wall. On Monday, I was just glad to be home. Jetlagged and needing to go to work early the next morning, I went to bed, unaware of the seven billion tonnes of water that had fallen in 72 hours...
to read more: London Review of Books.