So pleased that my poem ‘Spiders Build Your Webs at Night’ was included in the children’s poetry collection ‘If I Could Eat The Stars and Other Poems‘ published this month by Fremantle Press. It was inspired by the orb weavers in my front garden who build all along the eaves in front of my study […]

Hear me yarning about time, connection to Country, spiders, and the power of our more-than-human kin in the final of episode of Hark, season five of Threshold Podcast. You can listen on the Threshold website or wherever you get your podcasts (S5: Episode 16). Fellow WA mob Bianca McNeair of Malgana Country (Shark Bay) and […]

I’ve got a new poem called ‘Koondart wer Koondarm – Cloud and Dream’ in the book ‘Looking Across The Lake: 25 Years of Art’, published by the City of Joondalup. The book celebrates the 25-year anniversary of the City of Joondalup Art Collection, showcasing works by Western Australian artists that have been acquired by the […]

This year I was commissioned to write some lyrics in Noongar and English for a new orchestral and choir piece by Paul Stanhope for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO). The suite is called Mahasagar, a Hindi word for ocean, and is inspired by the coasts along the Indian Ocean where the sun sets over […]

‘How to read a poem to a spider‘ is a poem that imagines how human speech might ‘sound’ to a spider, a creature with an entirely different way of perceiving and processing the world to humans. It came out of participating in Kaori Nagai’s research project ‘Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis‘ […]

I have a new short story available to read, ‘Silken Cities (After Italo Calvino)‘, a spidery version of Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’. It was written as part of an international research project called ‘Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis‘ led by Dr Kaori Nagai of Kent University, and was presented at the […]

In January 2024, myself along with trapdoor spider ecologist Dr Leanda Mason, threatened invertebrate expert Loxley Fedec, and 22 wonderful volunteers relocated 40 trapdoor spiders in the Porongurup Range National Park whose burrows were in the path of new construction. Construction was completed in June 2024 and early signs point to every spider surviving the […]

I’m so pleased that my short story ‘Split’, a creative impression of Perth in deep time, has been selected as a key text for high school students studying VCE English in the state of Victoria, Australia. Here is information from the State Library of Victoria website: “A Western Australian author and descendent of the Noongar […]

I was honoured to write a feature review for ‘The Light Of Day‘, the world class retrospective of Yhonnie Scarce’s artworks currently showing at The Art Gallery of WA. The review was in the March 2nd issue of the Saturday Paper, or subscribers can read it online here. Scarce’s glass artworks of bush plums, bush […]

“In the sandy soil of a coastal plain and under fallen sheoak needles, folded legs shift under trapdoor hatch. She is stirring, eight limbs twitching, woken by the drop in temperature and change in birdsong. Her burrow is a silk sheath in the ground, plugged with a lid of web with leaf litter attached to […]