I didn’t quite expect this, but I’m about to release another collection of poems. That knocking is a short collection, just 7 poems, but one I’m excited to see released. Sometimes there are poems that sit neatly in a full-length thematic book, but often some poems just don’t – they’re loners, awkward in crowds, not … More That knocking
I’m no theatre critic, and this is not a review. Although I’ve performed, I feel like I approach theatre (like many other things) from the outside. I’m interested in how bodies experience each other, how people come together around something ostensibly fictional which can also be excruciatingly real. In the last few weeks, I saw … More Three ways of staging bodily difference
How do you know if someone is disabled? A wheelchair? Missing limbs? Dark glasses and a guide dog? There are those cliched visual cues, but of course, people can be disabled in very subtle or entirely invisible ways. Psychological disorder, extreme fatigue, even chronic pain can be difficult to discern in casual encounters. And there … More the unavoidable prefix
“For myself I am neither ‘jealous’, nor ‘inquisitive’, nor ‘hunchbacked’, nor ‘a civil servant’. It is often a matter of surprise that the invalid or cripple can put up with himself. The reason is that such people are not for themselves deformed or at death’s door. Until the final coma, the dying man is inhabited … More A matter of surprise
In 2013, I travelled to Ireland to perform “Ambiguous Mirrors“. Very soon, on Sunday 17th May at 5pm, at Thousand Pound Bend, I’ll be performing this piece to a Melbourne audience. This short performance is very personal to me. It meditates on grief, family and genetic inheritance. And the puppetry adds another, profound layer – … More captured whispers – puppetry and poetry collaborations
Last month, I was the guest blogger for Southerly Journal. For those of you who missed it, I made various attempts at hacking through the dense undergrowth around poetry, form, embodiment and otherness (as is my wont). I won’t reproduce the posts here, but here are some teasers and the links… Thanks to Tessa Lunney … More Southerly Journal: four more excursions into poetry & bodies
Yes, another book. I’m humbled and excited to announce the imminent release of “Immune Systems” through Transit Lounge. “Immune Systems” is the result of two trips to India, and a lot of percolating. The first half is kind of verse novella on the uncanny and fraught world of medical tourism. The second half is a … More launch of “Immune Systems”
