As a journalist I write on the arts and entertainment for Brisbane News - as an author I write about myself. If that sounds self-indulgent you don't know the half of it.
Mind you if you read either of my prose books - Travels with My Angst or the latest, Any Guru Will Do (both published by University of Queensland Press ) all will be revealed.
Existential angst reigns in these and both my books of poetry - Plastic Parables and An Accident in the Evening .
In my latest book, Any Guru Will Do , subtitled A Modern Man's Search for Meaning , you can join me as I search for the meaning of life and wellbeing as I navigate the world of spirituality and the New Age with limited success and hilarious results.
An Accident in the Evening (2001) - Poetry
Sample:
Thoughts While Waiting for a Pizza in New Farm
Sometimes you wonder: what used to be here?
Did ancient forests once cover this joint?
Or was it grassland over undulating hills
running down to the river?
(We hear it was blue, too, once upon a time.
The river, that is)
Sometimes you wonder:
what's under all this concrete?
(Besides the enemies of several generations
of colourful racing identities)
And what was here before
we had cities, mortgages, pizzas?
How fresh the air must have been
when we could run unfettered across the hills
chasing dinner
rather than waiting
to take it home in a box.
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