'New South Wales Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award, and the Christopher Brennan Award for sustained and distinguished excellence in poetry. She co-edited the poetry anthology A Parachute of Blue (1995) and has also worked on the poetry magazines Hobo and Kalimat. She has been a member of Literature Board of the Australia Council, and in 2005 became poetry editor of the literary journal Meanjin. She took a moment to chat to Robbie Coburn about imaginative spaces, first discovering poetry, and the place of the modern poet.' (Publication abstract)