Bibliophilia

Looking through my poetry folder for something else, I found this, almost forgotten, poem from my short stay on the Sunshine Coast of Quee...

Fish pie smiley face I've long harboured a secret fantasy of making a career in Hollywood on laugh tracks but I haven't pursued it b...

I am loving my life in Hamilton, very glad to be here getting to do all the interesting things I am doing. But at the same time I long for t...

I suppose its a sort of deconstructive personality trait that makes me want to know how to make every element of a book myself. On one level...

I just received my copy of Enamel, a new antipodean poetry magazine in which I am pleased to have two poems published. It's a lovely li...

I've set myself a little daily practice of drawing a fossil every day. I draw them from pictures in books, as I don't have a fossil...

It snuck up on me! I just noticed that the previous post, Hermes Baby was my 600th post on Bibliophilia. I noted the blog's fourth anni...

Making a zine is an excuse to use my Hermes Baby, the prettiest typewriter in the world. When I first learned to type nearly 30 years ago, ...

"Frank had always considered toenail polish to be a kind of intelligence test that its users had embarrassingly and publicly failed; bu...

Yesterday I did the rounds of trying to catching up with a few University of Waikato friends (and lunch with my dear old dad). It was Clubs ...

Coptic binding practice I've been making lots of books lately, which is ironic since not long ago I posted here about the apparent eclip...

My work, Soul of the Seal , is featured on In Leaf , a very stylie blog by Lotta Helleberg , an Etsy textile artist. She does leaf printing...

Kids and mums reading poetry in the White Garden Months ago, when I was first invited to chalk poetry at the 2009 Hamilton Summer Garden...

Hamilton Gardens is my favourite park in the whole world, and today I got to turn it into an artist's book by writing my poetry all over...

Back when I was living in the rainforest, my friend Misha Hoo , told me about an exercise for summoning your inner resources. It involved v...