I’ll be reading at the Poetryspective Roadshow at Maryborough’s Words in Winter festival program. Held at Maryborough Railway Station, the night includes feature readings also by Leni Shilton and Ross Gillett, and is em-ceed by Colin Clark with an open mic section. Details and bookings here.

The annual NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair spreads its program to include a regional appearance at Castlemaine Art Museum. I’ll be selling and signing editions of my books that have engaged with visual art in different ways, from ekphrasis to colonial history. Come and look at rooms of sellers featuring comics, artists books, local publishers and more in the gorgeous exhibition spaces of CAM.

MAINfm will be making a live outside broadcast at the Castlemaine Farmers Market to celebrate National Volunteers Week - and my show, Make/Believe, will air at its usual 3-4pm time slot from the MAINFm van. Joining me for a special, al fresco edition of the show will be Maddie Mac from the Arts Folk program. We’ll be talking shit, playing tunes, pointing at people’s dogs and getting lackeys to fetch us fried donuts. Turn up from 10am for the whole day of market and radio picnic fun. Western Reserve, Castlemaine.

Please come and join me at Readings Carlton to launch my new book of nonfiction, Monument. Flying in from Wellington, Aotearoa, will be poet and critic Joan Fleming to do the honours. You can book for the event here.

I’ve been shortlisted for The Nature Conservancy’s annual essay prize. The ceremony, led by a talk from the inimitable Tim Winton, is open for bookings.

Reading some recent work alongside a local open mic crowd at the Northern Arts Hotel, Midland Highway, Castlemaine.

I’ll be reading my poem, ‘Mandala’ selected by editors Jeanine Leane and Judith Beveridge for the Best of Australian Poems 2022 anthology. At the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, details and bookings here.

Alan Wearne is including a regional Victorian date on his launch tour, at the Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine. Come along to hear Alan in discussion with me, his former student and regional local, and to hear him read, sell and sign copies of his selected work from Puncher & Wattmann.

A public showing/reading of work I’ve been making alongside visual artists at Watershed Studios, Galway. I was funded to undertake this residency by Regional Arts Victoria.