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OK, I can now update details of my next book launch: Breaking The Days will be launched in Melbourne by Alison Croggon at The Alderman, 134 Lygon St, Brunswick East, on Saturday 21st November, 2.30-4.30pm. Welcome, one and all! You might be interested to read some of my thoughts on putting the book together a few posts back on the blog. I hope to have a cover pic available soon.  

Adam Aitken was at my Sydney launch and, lo and behold, has blogged some of his cool pics of the event. Thanks, Adam.

My latest book, Dark Bright Doors , published by Wakefield Press. To be launched by Debra Adelaide Saturday 10th April 2010 3.30 for 4pm Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe This the first west island (Australian) launch. Dark Bright Doors has already been welcomed into the world in Auckland and more welcomes are afoot closer to my current abode.

Announcing the February Melbourne launch of the ground-breaking anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets , edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones ( Puncher and Wattmann ). To be launched by Christos Tsiolkas and Kathleen Fallon Tuesday 2nd Feb, 7pm Hares & Hyenas 63 Johnston St, Fitzroy Readers at the launch include: Javant Biarujia, Bel Schenk, Maria Zajkowski, Terry Jaensch, Peter Rose, Michael Farrell, Jill Jones and, we hope, Susan Hawthorne. The event is part of Midsumma , Melbourne's annual gay and lesbian festival. Other poets in the anthology include David Malouf, Dorothy Porter, Pam Brown, Chris Edwards, Lee Cataldi, Martin Harrison, joanne burns, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Tricia Dearborn, Kate Lilley, and many others. Out of the Box is the first contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poetry anthology. These are poems of the 21st century: sexy, sassy, innovative, and real. Read an interview about the anthology with Michael and me, by ...