Pi.O.

A chronicle of the early days of performance poetry, presented as a road trip in verse by one of its greatest practitioners. This book-length verse narrative is about a so-called 'Dirty T-Shirt Tour', on which a group of Australian poets travel to cities in the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s to give readings. It is composed as a...

Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry Heide is an epic poem about history, painting, painters, patrons, and the people who made art happen in Australia—from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton to Vassilief, Nolan, Tucker, Joy Hester, the Boyds, Mirka Mora, and Albert Namatjira, with a particular focus on the artists gathered around...