The national speaking tour with Nicole Foss and David Holmgren, “Strategies for a changing economy: survive and thrive” is set to roll.
Nicole has landed safe and sound in Sydney this afternoon. She had to negotiate her way through immigration, customs and so on at Auckland airport in a great haste, in half an hour, from domestic to international, because her plane from Nelson was delayed due to the fog. She’s made it to the harbour city.
David has left Melliodora, travelling his way up on XPT tonight. Snuggly tucked in in his sleeper cabin. He is scheduled to arrive in Sydney early Friday morning.
On Friday, David will be interviewed on ABC Sydney at about 10am with Linda Mottram. Tune in if you can.
Then turn up.
At 6.30pm, the door will open at Sydney Mechanics for the first of public presentation the pair will present across Australia in next fortnight. Should be a cracker. Tickets are still available, book now.
Plenty of hard to find books will be on sale tomorrow at the venue.
Will see you there. Up close, in person.
2026 Venie Prize winner
MegU September 1 2026
Here is what judge Peter O’Mara had to say about all of the poems entered in this year’s Venie Prize: In such a conjectural, estranged times, this year’s entries arrived, not coincidentally, from a multifarious array of the environmental poetry index — the polemical, the elegiac, the embodied, the observed, the incidental, the expansive, the
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