Born in a small mining town near Canberra in 1961. He has worked in bookshops, spent two years travelling in Asia, and six years studying history and Japanese at Monash University. In 1989 he published Buddhism in Australia (UNSW Press). And since 1992 has been looking after his two sons, gardening, editing poetry magazines, and working on a book of poems called The Landing. His favourite poets (or at least those with whom he would seem to have few arguments, and to whom he returns constantly) are William Carlos Williams and Robert Creeley. He helped found the print journal, Salt-Lick Quarterly.
