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So here I am back home in this antiquarian outpost of Empire, this
So here I am back home in this antiquarian outpost of Empire, this land much better than the least of us who run it, this Constitutional Monarchy (can...

I just had news that a poem of mine, Peregrine Moon, will appear
I just had news that a poem of mine, Peregrine Moon, will appear in The Australian sometime in the next three to four months. Good news, although it c...

Just to say a bit about what I was doing in Kiribati, heres a note
Just to say a bit about what I was doing in Kiribati, heres a note I wrote (after the Imodium kicked in) on the flights home, in part to give some bac...

The blue merles come this way, much more blue-grey in their coat
The blue merles come this way, much more blue-grey in their coat than the standard issue rough collie, like my Honey. But this one—so beautifully ca...

So, I wrote most of this last night, but the day had been so hot
So, I wrote most of this last night, but the day had been so hot and long, I found my nose fallen to my keyboard around the fifth sentence and took my...

A year since Seamus Heaney left us, I share the house with his
A year since Seamus Heaney left us, I share the house with his voice: an old tape—yes, a tape recording—of a reading he made as long ago as the ei...

Writing, by its nature, is resistance. To write is to look deep
Writing, by its nature, is resistance. To write is to look deep inside the inner life of the actual world, to feel the beat of any human heart, to cat...