This year – 2010 – has been frantic but I’ve finally found a moment to update news.
New Book! A short selected, felis domestica and other poems, came out in the spring of 2009 with Picaro Press (Wagtail series, 91). Check out their website on www.picaropress.com/ to order.
Forthcoming: Picaro will publish a selection for children, Swamp Soup and Other Poems, as well as Teachers’ Notes.
This year is slipping away because of so much travel. I had a terrific first trip to Hong Kong in March for the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership Symposium. During that time I ferried over to Mainland China to run a writing workshop with students in the School of Foreign Languages at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.
In April I was a guest at Salt on the Tongue: the Goolwa Poetry Festival in South Australia, organised by the Australian Poetry Centre.
The next big trip in 2010 will be to England for a Creativity, Writing and Culture symposium at the University of Winchester, followed by the National Association of Writers in Education Conference in Cheltenham, England. Busy writing papers and organising workshops!
A 2009 update: I was the keynote speaker at the Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference in Hamilton, New Zealand, in November (see ‘Living on the Edge: Creative Writers in Higher Education’ in TEXT, 14:1 [April 2010]).
