A poem from my first book, Something That Comes Close. Illustration by Spike Deane.

For Betty. 16 January 1931 to 4 February 2025

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley,

My friend Chris Crowley died overnight in a hospital bed in Wales. He had been unconscious for a week or more. He had been given a...

for my dear friend Chris It is three minutes to five on an exquisite Canberra spring day. I'm sitting under the fading sun of the late...