I have been waiting and waiting for this announcement to be made, and am so glad that Fremantle Press have finally made it official: Right Way Down is being published in 2024.

I have been lucky enough to be working on this book as co-editor with the amazing Rebecca M. Newman, poet extraordinaire and publisher of Alphabet Soup Books. Rebecca sourced funding to get this project off the ground and we have spent many pleasant hours selecting and ordering and editing the anthology.  Briony Stewart has spent many more hours devising delightful illustrations, And then Fremantle Press suggested that they might like to come on board and  help us get this offering o the world.

Look at the amazing cover!   It is just amazing, and hopefully will lead lots of young readers to pen the book and read poems by some very talented West Australian poets, including Rebecca, A.J. Betts, Cristy Burne, Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Cass Lynch, Amber Moffat, Meg McKinlay, Sally Morgan, James Foley, Dianne Wolfer  and me, among others.

Can’t wait to read it? Neither can I – but we do have to wait until March 2024, when it will be released for your reading pleasure.  I have until then to contemplate whether there is any chance of me doing a handstand (hint: the title poem might require a handstand) at the launch.

To see the full Press release click here.