A big thanks to Simon Warrender, the founder and director of the prize. And equally big congratulations to Alison Lester and Jamie Marina Lau.

Extract from Dangerous Ideas about Mothers, edited by Camilla Nelson and Rachel Robertson, published in the Sydney Review of Books.

With Melinda Harvey, Lisa West McNeice, Vanda Hamilton and Sophie Bibrowska.

“We don’t need more dialogues, we need people who can help us think.”

With Sarah Krasnostein and Fatima Measham.

With Vahideh Eisaei, Khalid Warsame, Hana Assafiri, Sofija Stefanovic, Alice Pung, Sam Pang and George Megalogenis.

Speaking from inside the immigrant experience, catching times and spaces of immigration before they're squeezed, solidified into an assortment of familiar, 'tamed' narratives... A six-part audio work.

Sarah's fourth book Draw Your Weapons is really really worth reading. We are at The Wheeler Centre talking about (perma)war, resistance, looking and not looking, the 'civil contract of photography', limits of empathy.

The past shapes the present – they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn’t live in little zoo enclosures. 

From a special 'Writing and Trauma' issue of Text Journal edited by Bridget Haylock and Suzanne Hermanoczki, October 2017.

I have a short piece on my family's experiences in Uzbekistan during WWII in this new collection.

Interview with Antony Funnell on our narrative fixation.

My extended review of Michael Green's and Andre Dao's (eds) They Cannot Take the Sky.

Brief review in Text Journal.

Thanks to Catriona Menzies-Pike for publishing this essay.

A new podcast series from The Poet's Voice. I spoke about Brodsky.

Extract from a public lecture given as part of the 2016 Wednesday Lecture Series Hosted by Raimond Gaita.

"What are essays for? They are for picking up ideas, feelings, forces in the air, still unnamed and amorphous, and giving them a foothold in language. "