Top Gear poem mystery solved … I think

One of my favourite Top Gear episodes is their road trip across the bottom of Africa. If you’ve also seen it you might recall the scene where, as the three of them watch the moon rise over the Kalahari Desert, there is this exchange: James May: I know a Philip Larkin poem about the moon….

Emerging Writers’ Festival Program 2010 – available now!

Last night I went to the EWF program launch party, and now the program has been made available online. As long-time readers will know, the EWF has a special place in my heart and I’m pleased to say that I’ll be there on Sunday 23rd May as part of the Page Parlour at Federation Square (see photos…

Kill Your Darlings podcast interview

Estelle Tang from Kill Your Darlings recently interviewed me about Miscellaneous Voices and the podcast is up now at the Killings blog. I believe it goes for around twenty minutes. Talking about blogging makes me realise how thin on the ground my own posting has been this week … or, heck, this year even. xxx