Julie Maclean and John Bartlett launch n...

Feb 21, 2025

My poem ‘The unfolding of’ p...

Jan 12, 2025

My poem ”dragonflies draw flame &#...

Jan 2, 2025

Democracy and the Silencing of Women’s V...

Dec 6, 2024

My poem ‘Canary in the Coalmine...

Dec 2, 2024

My poem ”Oh, night more lovelyR...

Oct 2, 2024

The special edition of CERASUS Poetry Ma...

Sep 30, 2024

Workshop: Poets go to War

Sep 1, 2024

My poem ‘Magpie’ Song’...

May 29, 2024

Two poems on the war in Ukraine publishe...

Mar 31, 2024

My poem ‘Straya no worries’ ...

Mar 20, 2024

My poem ‘migratory restlessness...

Mar 2, 2024

My poem ón the advice of children ‘...

Mar 1, 2024

My poem ábout water’published in t...

Feb 26, 2024

My poem ‘Love and its Penalties...

Jan 15, 2024

My short story “At Tennyson’...

Jan 11, 2024

‘This Luminous Earth’ and &#...

Nov 24, 2023

Two poems published in the Ros Spencer P...

Nov 19, 2023

My poem ‘Going Home’ publish...

Oct 24, 2023

‘Learning How to Die’ publis...

Oct 20, 2023

My poem ‘Days are Silk’ long...

Sep 2, 2023

“In the Cathedral of Longing ̶...

Aug 13, 2023

My Poem ‘Intertidal’ publish...

May 30, 2023

My poem “this earth is nearly lumi...

May 30, 2023

My poem ‘Some boys’ publishe...

May 3, 2023

World Poetry Day Geelong Library

Apr 23, 2023

My poem ‘Hidden’ published i...

Apr 2, 2023

My poem ‘Sing Out for Ukraine̵...

Dec 31, 2022

‘Country is Self’ published ...

Dec 20, 2022

Three poems published on Eureka Street

Dec 15, 2022

Two poems longlisted and published in &#...

Nov 24, 2022

My short story ‘Train to Irun̵...

Oct 27, 2022

My poem ‘ sunflowers need full sun...

May 30, 2022

My poem “Passerus, Passerus”...

Apr 2, 2022

World Poetry Day 2022 returns to Geelong...

Mar 23, 2022

Interview with journalist and author Mic...

Feb 13, 2022

Two poems published in Confluence Magazi...

Feb 5, 2022

“Now Wake the Prowling Tigers̶...

Dec 30, 2021

“the taste of the wolf” publ...

Dec 5, 2021

“Languages of Hands” publish...

Nov 20, 2021

NEVINBUMBAAN RETURNS and Outside IGA pub...

Nov 1, 2021

Highly Commended in Mundaring Poetry Com...

Oct 29, 2021

Two poems published in Cerasus poetry Ma...

Oct 19, 2021

My poem ‘To Be Wild’ publish...

Oct 18, 2021

Verandah 36 includes my poem I am not a ...

Oct 14, 2021

These Days published in Issue 13 of Melb...

Oct 9, 2021

A Box Of Photos published In ‘Mile...

Sep 29, 2021

My poem All the Deep Pulse published in ...

Aug 31, 2021

My poem ‘I Lie Down’ publish...

Aug 2, 2021

Two poems published in ‘Unusual Wo...

Aug 1, 2021

The Far-right and their Trojan Horse

Jul 30, 2021

My poem ‘A DNA Test’ publish...

Jul 2, 2021

My poem published in Meniscus Volume 9, ...

Jul 1, 2021

My poem Still ‘Falling’ publ...

Jun 10, 2021

Q and A with prize-winning poet Julie Ma...

Jun 9, 2021

Two poems published in ‘Queerlings...

May 16, 2021

Poem and Profile in Otway Life magazine

May 2, 2021

CORDITE publishes my reviews of Kevin Br...

Apr 14, 2021

‘Awake at 3am’ launched at G...

Apr 13, 2021

My poem ‘Stay Quietly in Your Seat...

Feb 16, 2021

My poem ‘The Arms of Men’ pu...

Feb 6, 2021

My poem “Cetacean Stranding”...

Feb 1, 2021

My Poem “Will Memories be Enough&#...

Jan 23, 2021

My poem ‘A Time to Clear the Stone...

Dec 31, 2020

Lynda Scott Araya reviews John Bartlett’...

Dec 31, 2020

John Bartlett reviews Fiona Perry’s ‘Alc...

Dec 23, 2020

Personal and confessional: Julie Maclean...

Dec 15, 2020

My poem ‘Are we There Yet?’ ...

Dec 7, 2020

”Go Firmly’ published in Lon...

Dec 1, 2020

Poem published in ‘bent street 4.2...

Nov 27, 2020

Meaning can catch on anything: John Bart...

Nov 16, 2020

‘Awake at 3AM’ is a truly superb collect...

Oct 17, 2020

NO PEACE WITHOUT BITTERNESS published in...

Oct 14, 2020

Awake at 3am

Sep 19, 2020

Á Question for William Carter’ pub...

Sep 10, 2020

My review of ‘Family Trees’ ...

Sep 8, 2020

‘Measuring’ Posted on Poetry...

Aug 17, 2020

‘ Ekaterinburg’ published in...

Aug 17, 2020

Prize-winning author, Julie Mclean launc...

Jul 21, 2020

Adas

Jul 19, 2020

Í Lie Down’ in Australian Poetry A...

Jul 13, 2020

Aging,Friendship & more – my ...

Jun 18, 2020

Coronavirus restrictions halt poetry lau...

Jun 18, 2020

Some comments/reviews of “Songs of...

Jun 5, 2020

Holding onto the Bible

Jun 2, 2020

My poem ‘A YEAR of MASKS’ pu...

Jun 1, 2020

“Songs of the Godforsaken” r...

May 27, 2020

‘Advance Australia’ publishe...

May 22, 2020

POETRY READINGS & ISOLATION MUSINGS

Apr 20, 2020

eBooks

Apr 1, 2020

Re-booting the planet

Mar 27, 2020

Poem in Red Room Poetry

Jan 28, 2020

‘After the Surgery’ publishe...

Dec 9, 2019

“Circumstances beyond our Control&...

Dec 8, 2019

Poems in Meniscus 7.2

Nov 21, 2019

Rochford Street Review posts Launch Spee...

Nov 3, 2019

Interview with journalist and author Mic...

Oct 6, 2019

Interview with Lucy Treloar

Sep 9, 2019

Noumea Quartet

Aug 11, 2019

Interview on Pulse 94.7 FM

Jul 30, 2019

‘The call of the Border’ pub...

Jul 1, 2019

Launch of “The Arms of Men”

Jun 10, 2019

MELBOURNE POETS’s UNION PUBLISHES LOCAL ...

May 24, 2019

“Still Around” published in ...

Apr 5, 2019

WORLD POETRY DAY IN GEELONG – 2019

Apr 2, 2019

John Bartlett speech at Artisan launch

Feb 6, 2019

Three poems published in Poetry Pacific ...

Nov 10, 2018

Oct 2, 2018

Aug 4, 2018

Shokoofeh Azar

Jul 1, 2018

‘Plastic World’ published in...

Jun 20, 2018

Whatever happened to compassion?

May 25, 2018

May 10, 2018

Four poems published in Meniscus Literar...

Apr 10, 2018

The Blue

Mar 25, 2018

JACK FERRYMAN – Reluctant Private invest...

Mar 22, 2018

Manus

Mar 16, 2018

Invasion Day – 2018 – listen...

Jan 25, 2018

December 17th 2017- Release of ‘A TINY a...

Dec 16, 2017

Recently published poetry

Dec 15, 2017

The Catholic Church 2018 – Sackcloth �...

Dec 14, 2017

Message from Behrouz Boochani

Dec 1, 2017

Recently published poetry

Nov 26, 2017

Featured Writer – Frank Kelly

Nov 22, 2017

Billboards around Brisbane

Nov 13, 2017

Who’s afraid of the working class?

Sep 9, 2017

Words from the Surf Coast ArtsTrail 2017

Sep 1, 2017

Megan Abbott

Aug 28, 2017

Love Your Bookshop Day

Aug 15, 2017

‘Think of the Child’

Aug 10, 2017

Yahweh and Eros, first published in ‘Mea...

Jun 21, 2017

“FAIR SUCK OF THE SAUCE BOTTLE”

May 24, 2017

Migration, Refugees and Hope

May 20, 2017

Love Never Ends

Apr 9, 2017

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF NEOREACTION

Feb 19, 2017

THAT AUTUMN FEELING – the bullies are ba...

Feb 2, 2017

Word for Word Non-Fiction Festival- Geel...

Feb 1, 2017

A State of Permanent Outrage Arousal (PO...

Dec 8, 2016

Two steps forward, three steps back R...

Dec 2, 2016

Politically Incorrect

Nov 23, 2016

World Mental Health Day 2016

Oct 9, 2016

Melbourne Writers Festival – Week one

Sep 7, 2016

Detective Swan returns, bloodied but unb...

Jul 14, 2016

David Manne lifts the lid on the double ...

Jun 29, 2016

The whistling man with the prosthetic le...

Jun 28, 2016

How did we get to this? – a review of ‘C...

Jun 23, 2016

Tailored to our needs

Jun 18, 2016

Compassion in small doses

Jun 15, 2016

‘Like gods together, careless of m...

May 27, 2016

#IDAHOT day 2016 – two steps forwa...

May 16, 2016

Author visits home town

Apr 18, 2016

Landscapes of the heart

Mar 28, 2016

Probus meeting in Portarlington in Victo...

Feb 17, 2016

Climate Change

Feb 10, 2016

Surf Coast- Boxing Day 2015

Dec 29, 2015

From the Room of Unexpected Words

Dec 3, 2015

Messing with the Church

Dec 2, 2015

Violence against women – one man&#...

Nov 25, 2015

Died Under Our Care

Nov 18, 2015

Tegan Bennett Daylight

Nov 4, 2015

Shaking things up – the Greens can...

Sep 25, 2015

Writers Ride the Big Dipper: 2015 Nation...

Sep 16, 2015

Romeo & Romeo: a review of ‘H...

Aug 31, 2015

Twilight of Democracy or of Fortitude?

Aug 29, 2015

FROM BATHSHEBA TO LAURIE – ARE WE THERE ...

Jul 29, 2015

Hardline Compassion – Labor for Refugees...

Jul 25, 2015

A LITTLE PILGRIMAGE

Jul 24, 2015

DISMANTLING COMMUNITY – brick by brick

Jul 14, 2015

Estuary TV Development

Jul 8, 2015

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: WHAT’S THE WORST THAT...

Jul 3, 2015

Love Winter in Aireys

Jun 15, 2015

Crime and Passion in Spain’s Deep South:...

Jun 13, 2015

WALK DON’T RUN

Jun 9, 2015

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE – TAKING A BROADER VI...

May 22, 2015

Adrian McKinty

May 18, 2015

Geelong After Dark

May 9, 2015

Mothers’ Day

May 8, 2015

BEYOND GOODBYE – ‘We’ll meet again...

Apr 25, 2015

Our Anzac Obsession

Apr 20, 2015

Fiction on the Borders

Apr 6, 2015

THE ADVANCE OF THE TECHIE BABY-BOOMERS

Apr 1, 2015

A CHURCH ON FIRE

Mar 31, 2015

A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Mar 30, 2015

THE MICE THAT ROARED

Mar 19, 2015

‘I am Woman, Hear me Roar…&#...

Mar 6, 2015

KEEPING VIGIL

Mar 2, 2015

IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLY

Feb 24, 2015

The Turning Tide?

Feb 17, 2015

IN THE LAND OF ‘COMPETITIVE EVALUATION P...

Feb 11, 2015

UN-AUSTRALIAN PARTY POOPER

Jan 23, 2015

JUST JOKING JOYCE

Jan 10, 2015

THE LOTTERY OF LIFE

Jan 1, 2015

GIVE THEM A ‘WEDGIE’

Nov 22, 2014

BOOK REVIEW: qnews.com.au

Nov 11, 2014

In Memory of my beloved brother Michaell...

Jul 8, 2014

THE ELOISE PROJECT

Jun 26, 2014

TOO MANY CRACKS: remembering Leorsin See...

Jun 5, 2014

Nice Men in Dark Suits

May 2, 2014

DULCE ET DECORUM EST ‘It is sweet and gl...

Apr 24, 2014

Fire and Water: Vale Charles (Ken) Taylo...

Apr 3, 2014

Casual but is it smart? (The casualisati...

Mar 27, 2014

Don’t Panic: a Meditation on Paranoia

Mar 19, 2014

Writers for Refugees – can a ̵...

Dec 23, 2013

Adelaide Launch

Dec 8, 2013

The Pulse FM

Dec 3, 2013

The Lure of Place (published in the Dece...

Dec 2, 2013

Meet the Author

Nov 28, 2013

Estuary Launch

Oct 16, 2013

ESTUARY – MID-WEEK REVIEW

Sep 18, 2013

Ali Cobby Eckermann

Aug 24, 2013

Demonstration against cuts to Higher Edu...

Aug 20, 2013

Dressing Informally

Aug 9, 2013

Colin Batrouney

Jul 27, 2013

Bleeding Hearts

Jul 24, 2013

Open The Door Wider…Please

Jul 22, 2013

Jarad Henry

Jul 20, 2013

All Mortal Flesh

Jul 5, 2013

Towards A Distant Sea

Jul 5, 2013

Belladonna

Jul 5, 2013

Estuary

Jul 5, 2013

My first guest blog

May 12, 2013

‘Estuary’ – The Story ...

May 5, 2013

Josephine Rowe

Mar 10, 2013

A Bunch of Sporting Brats?

Feb 22, 2013

James Lee Bourke Rewrites the Bible

Feb 12, 2013

Laura Kroetsch

Jan 14, 2013

Candice Bruce

Nov 5, 2012

BAILLEAU’S ENTRÉE NOT TO HIS TASTE?

Oct 19, 2012

‘MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL, WHO’S THE ...

Oct 17, 2012

Patrick Gale

Aug 31, 2012

Tony Birch

Aug 24, 2012

Estuary

Aug 13, 2012

Ryan Oneill

Aug 3, 2012

Richard Ford

Jul 16, 2012

Romy Ash

Jul 10, 2012

NOVELISTS AND SUFFERING CHILDREN

Jul 5, 2012

WINTER THOUGHTS

Jun 25, 2012

VAMPIRE WORDS

Jun 25, 2012

POOFTER BASHING & IDAHO DAY

May 16, 2012

‘…JUST LIKE A WOMAN’

May 2, 2012

Outside the Flags

May 1, 2012

MELROSE MOUNTJOY & the case of the ...

May 1, 2012

A Real Man

Apr 23, 2012

Shine A Light

Apr 5, 2012

A World Full of Things

Mar 23, 2012

Cruel Adelaide?

Mar 8, 2012

Miguel Syjuco

Mar 7, 2012

Ron Rash

Mar 6, 2012

Megan Abbott

Mar 6, 2012

Michael Duffy

Feb 28, 2012

Please Just Grow Up!

Feb 21, 2012

Herons

Feb 19, 2012

St Valentine & Nudity

Feb 14, 2012

Geoff McGeachin

Feb 12, 2012

Melrose Mountjoy and the Case of the Flo...

Feb 9, 2012

Sweet Bird Of Youth

Feb 8, 2012

Avalon Airport – Another Layer Of ...

Jan 25, 2012

Awaiting Takeoff

Jan 25, 2012

Smiling Assassins part 1

Jan 25, 2012

Smiling Assassins part 2

Jan 25, 2012

Amanda Curtin.

Jan 25, 2012

Towards A Distant Sea

Jan 25, 2012

Towards a Distant Sea PLUS All Mortal Fl...

Jan 25, 2012

Sunset

Jan 15, 2012

Beyond A Distant Sea – TV Series

Jan 14, 2012

Lower Murray Nungas Club

Jan 13, 2012