Regular visitors to this site will be familiar by now with the Ozlit section. Twenty essays about Australian writers and their books have been completed and I’ve begun to plan a second series which as yet has no name: the first series will be referred to on this website and elsewhere as The Well in the Shadow.

Please note that most of the Ozlit essays now have ‘covers’, or perhaps face-sheets is a more appropriate term, by Vane Lindesay, one of Australia’s finest book designers. Work is in progress to give the remaining essays face sheets too.

I am working on a new collection of opera librettos, with the tentative title of This Enchanted World. In accordance with this title, I hope that the librettos will have a magical and/or spiritual theme: for some time now six of these librettos have been offered here, and I have recently added two more, giving eight out of what will eventually be fifteen.

Segovia
Man Swallows God
The Water Tower
The Endeavour
A Brighter Garden
John Grey’s Journey
On the Water
The Visit

I have also begun a new book, which I’ve called All the Way to Z, about my experiences in the field of education. I’ve subtitled this work ‘an essay in the form of a memoir, or vice versa’, as a way of indicating that it is both speculative and a personal record. It will fall into several sections, of which the first is given here:

All the Way to Z – (A Hasty Sketch)