DEGREEES

Over several family-size supremes

in Bundanoon's Italian spot,

tourists from Sydney whine about

the state of roads into town.

A Pakistani father and his boy,

eating bread scraps, calling to goats,

wander along what's left of a new road,

whilst being watched by a US drone.

LJ, March 2013

FACT

The male Sydney Funnel Web

was the only thing

in this universe

that spooked

Darth Vader. 

I just sent fellow Southern Highlander Mark Tredinnick a couple of poems for the love poetry volume he's editing... let's see whether they make the cut...

Geoff Page is at the National Library of Australia next Tuesday @ 3pm speaking about his life with poetry and jazz... sounds good to me...

I am stoked John Knight of Pitt Street Poetry is re-issuing Luke Davies' ultra-rare Four Plots For Magnets (from 1982) in April. Luke's lyric means a lot to me. Years ago, Luke offered me words of encouragement re my own poetry writing. 

I just sent off 5 poems to the Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Prize. The prize is $1000, a two week residency at Manning Clark House in Canberra and a residency in a castle in Ireland. What a well-considered prize. All hail the architects behind it. I'll cross my fingers, take a deep breath... 

I live in Bundanoon, NSW and teach English at Magdalene Catholic High School in south-west Sydney. My poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Eclogues Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2007, the Broadway Poetry Prize collection 2004, Meanjin, Island, Islet, Mascara Literary Review, Wet Ink, Regime, Cordite, Famous Reporter, Rabbit, For Rhino in a Shrinking World and Poetry d'Amour…