After bushfires came months of unrelenting rain. The burrows flooded. Mud obscured the paths to higher ground. Brian, in the mist rising from swampy ground, finds a great and secret tunnel in the sky. Lumachrome Glass Print, Cliche-verre, Chemigram, Drawing.

PREORDERING IS OPEN NOW (official release date October 1) The Purple House help remote Indigenous people remain on their homeland for life-saving dialysis. All author profits from this book go to them. We've released a limited edition of 1000 signed books. puncherandwattmann.com/product/the-...

Friends, after all the drama, the motorcycle crashes and desert crossings, the burying of thousands of road killed animals and birds (not killed by me!!)-- the first 1000 signed copies of the book are finally available for presale! puncherandwattmann.com/product/the-...

So excited to be part of Storyfest this year! Keeping First Nations storytelling at the front of the conversation. There are some totally awesome poets and novellists this year. If you're near that part of the coast, come by and meet us!

Friends, my book "The Dingo's Noctuary", which took six years to write, will be published by Puncher & Wattmann on Oct 1, 2025. We'll do a run of 1000 hard cover books, numbered, with colour maps, plant pressings, star atlases and lumachrome prints. It will be available for pre-sale soon.

Sharing a poem by the very beautiful Michael Dransfield...

Sending love today, on this anniversary of Sorry Day, to all our brothers and sisters whose families were torn apart by the genocidal policies of successive Australian governments. I wish peace for all of you, peace and answers. A safe path back to community and culture. Always was, always will be.

Pretty stoked to have made the finals of Ravenswood Art Prize this year, alongside a bunch of super talented people. Hoping Sydney friends can get to the exhibition!

Just received my copy of Red Comet, the new biography of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark. And opening it for the first time, reacquainted myself with that astronomical talent. Plath, the lion-red queen of poetry. There will never be another quite like her.

The goats names are Myrtle and Murray, and the goose is Gerald. They'll be my studio companions when I move out to Reedy Creek. Selling prints at 15% off, to help pay for the move. Can't wait to show you guys the new place.

Previous Liberal (conservative) PM Malcolm Turnbull gave a speech at the National Press Club, articulating what many Australians feel. It doesn't matter which side of the political divide you're on, the US-Australian alliance looks very worse for wear. www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/sovere...

As part of their relentless attack on artists and free thinkers, yet another Australian cultural institution has cancelled Khaled Sabsabi. I call on all Australian artists to boycott Monash University's gallery until it grows a spine. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

It's official! I'm putting my shipping container and geodesic dome on a truck and moving out to Reedy Creek. I'll be sharing my new studio with two billy goats and a goose. For the next few weeks I'm selling edition prints at 15% off. The less I have to move, the better. Message me for prices!

If anyone is hanging around the Hunter, why not join me for poetry at the pub? Grand Hotel, Newcastle.

Every time I return to William Blake's poems, I understand them a little better. And the older I get, the more I need his gentle light - especially in times like ours. Here's two of my favourites - well known, but not diminished by familiarity.

Saluting the courage and solidarity of Australian artists this morning. We might disagree among ourselves sometimes, but we stand up when we need to defend our own.

SHOW opening tonight on Grainger Gallery's Mezzanine with the talented Rebecca Selleck at 6pm. Two brilliant artists in the main gallery, Mahala M Hill and Dan Power. Hope to see some of you there!

Joseph flashes in the midnight clouds, like lightning, like something holy, like someone entering into grace. (For Maddie) Lumachrome glass print, chemigram, cliche-verre. Fallen baby bird, insect tracks, seeds, copper chloride & acids with current, on fibre paper. Exposed 12 hours under perspex.

Creative Australia has dropped Khaled Sabsabi from Venice Biennale because they fear he will speak out about Gaza. I call on all Australian artists to end their association with Creative Australia. Race-based censorship is never acceptable. I stand with Khaled. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

I know many clever, educated Americans who have not realised the degree to which "Christianity" (Vance style) has shaped the rise of Fascism across the world and particularly in the US. This is an old article, but it lays out the origins of the evangelical alt-right. harpers.org/archive/2003...

"The tree of Joyfulness erupts from the marrow of the First Rat. And its humming branches call the spirit rodents, those lost or returning to the source, and offers them shelter."

@stephenharrisonart.bsky.social so great to see you here!!

If you're on tik tok, please be on guard for racist videos that target important cultural leader Eric Yunkaporta. And please share Wayne Quilliam's portrait of Eric to help raise awareness. These tik tik videos trivialise Aboriginal culture and there are real people being harmed by this.

Before racing to the US before Trump wrecked the joint, before the Christmas chaos, and before stalking Quokkas in WA... I was delighted to learn that the magnificent Spiritus Journal has nominated me for the Pushcart Prize, for my poem "Gloria for a Broken Planet". Big thanks to Mark S. Burrows.

Morning. ☕️

This new thing seems to be panning out okay, doesn’t it? Here’s a 🧵 about me. I’m a journalist and have recently interviewed some fabulous poets on redrafting for the Australian sequel to The Process of Poetry @[email protected] & I on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sending love today to all my LGBTQI+ and trans friends today, especially in the USA. The world is watching. You are not alone.

Watching Elon Musk give a Nazi salute today, at Trump's inauguration, did anyone else have that feeling that we are witnessing the start of something historical and evil? I have to say, my blood ran cold.

After the highway, the lights, the cool dark wind that moved him, Murat, somewhere in that gigantic night, discovered a door. Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Road-kill Quokka, ochre, wax, vegemite, pollen, bark, seeds & sand. Exposed 2 hours in WA ,26 hours in NSW in a perspex box.

New here. There’s a door inside a nebula—where the dead go through. Marvin and Dorothy, still spinning, find one another on the other side of stars. Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram. Cat-killed chipmunk & grey squirrel. 2x exposed with ochre, wax, paint, Vegemite, sand. 13 +36 hours.