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I have some big news I never thought I’d be sharing.

My first verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025.

This story is extremely close to my heart and I am so excited for people to read this book. I feel like it’s the book I’d been waiting all my life to write.

Poetry has saved me so many times and I hope this book might help to save someone else.

I’m especially grateful to Jeanne Ryckmans and Belinda Bolliger at Key People for all of thei...

To celebrate Haiku Poetry Day 2024, I wanted to share a favourite haiku by the master himself, Basho. As with World Poetry Day, I will endeavour to do this every year going forward.

Even that old horse
is something to see this
snow-covered morning

- Matsuo Basho

I am so grateful to the wonderful poet Jonathan Shaw for writing a beautiful, insightful and sensitive review of Ghost Poetry on his website Me fail? I fly!

The review can be read .

Elaine Chennatt has reviewed Ghost Poetry on Aniko Press.

Read the review .

Every day is poetry day, but to celebrate UNESCO World Poetry Day (21 March) for 2024, I thought I would share a favourite poem of mine, and will try to do this every year going forward. Today we have “You�� by the great “swamprat Rimbaud�� himself, Frank Stanford.

You

Sometimes in our sleep we touch
The body of another woman
And we wake up
And we know the first nights
With summer visitors
In the three storied house of our childhood.
Whatever we remember,
The darkest hair being brushed
In front of the d...

I feel like I’m dreaming. There is an amazing review of “Ghost Poetry�� in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald today by Candida Baker.
I feel so grateful to Upswell and Terri-ann White for everything. And to Jeanne Ryckmans and Michele Seminara, especially, for always supporting me and my work.
Candy is a huge hero mine, as the editor of The Penguin Book of the Horse, so this feels extra surreal. I am so grateful.
I feel so lucky to have survived and to be here to see this.

The review can be re...

Thank you so much to Maggie Ball for having me on the Compulsive Reader talks podcast to discuss and read from Ghost Poetry.

The episode can be heard .

Barrina South has written a beautiful review of Ghost Poetry on ArtsHub.

I am extremely grateful.

The review can be read .

Magdalena Ball has written a beautiful, kind and thoughtful review of Ghost Poetry for Compulsive Reader.

I am beyond grateful and it means the world to me.

The review can be read .

Ghost Poetry is now available at the amazing Red Kangaroo Books in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, NT.

Click the image below to go to their website.