My paper on Voss's material (and mineral) poetics, that I was fortunate enough to win @ASAustLit A. D. Hope Prize for earlier this year, has now been published on @AustLitJournal, freely available to read here: openjournals.library.sydney.…

We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning theguardian.com/environment/…

My top 10 Australian books votesfor the ABC. Strong bias toward the contemporary in their list that I maybe reacted against that (also among their oversights was no Kinsella!). Coetzee’s Disgrace would have been in but couldn’t call it justifiably call it Australian.

“One old idea, at least, is worth taking forwards if we are to extricate ourselves from hyperpolitics: that there is nothing left to us but to organise and fight.” Ben Brooker on Anton Jäger. overland.org.au/2026/09/surv…

I put down $50 for a signed copy!

Digging this flyer - bringing Phoenix back to where it was born (from ashes, etc) shortly!

My paper on Phoenix, the little known Adelaide modernist literary magazine and precursor to the Angry Penguins has been published! Open access and with many images included, available to read here: doi.org/10.31646/am.165

Why on earth are a classicist and a musician on the booker judging panel?

7k in under 24 hours. Feels insane. Almost halfway there already. Let's make it happen!

Palestine activist charged with a criminal offence, faces 5 years in jail and has driving restrictions on his Uber for pestering his local MP over Gaza with email. #whatsthescam #auspol #nswpol michaelwest.com.au/police-pr…

I was excited to finally find a picture of Molly Swan thanks to this blog!

I'm looking forward to talking at Flinders Uni tomorrow, delving into the local/international literary and modernist history of the little-known little magazine Phoenix.

this dude’s hughesy impersonation is gold

I’m chairing this fabulous @IntlAusStudies award this year — please encourage your HDR students & ECR colleagues to submit! Wonderful that Kay Schaffer’s intellectual legacy continues, including in my @UQCom_Arts u’grad classes

Sam Neil as I shall remember him

Haul from amazing Archive Fine Books in Brisbane - very pleased with all of them, especially Kinsella’s Night Parrots (which I’ve been after for years).

Had an amazing week last week at ASAL at UQ in Brisbane. It was great to present to colleagues by re-reading some of Henry Lawson’s overlooked short stories from far Western New South Wales in terms of the calamitous Federation Drought (with a joke or two to lighten the doom).

It was the Scummo Morrison government that started to charge an outrageous $50,000 for an Arts degree. To its shame and disgrace, the ALP government carried it on. theguardian.com/australia-ne…

2027 university fees were announced today. Next year an arts degree will cost $54 000, a combined degree $90 000. The Job-Ready Graduates scheme doubled the cost of arts, law, finance and economics degrees. It's now been in place longer under Anthony Albanese than Scott Morrison. It's been described as the worst thing ever to happen to HECS. It has contributed to a cost-of-learning crisis which is preventing graduates from buying homes and starting families. The Job-Ready Graduates Scheme must go. education.gov.au/higher-educ…