‘Quiet and erudite, bespectacled and vastly well read, a self-described “natural hermit”, he loves nothing more than to read, enthuse and gossip about books, to re-read and revel in the greats, to reach for his heroes, to marvel at the process - of imagining, creating, conjuring people and scenes on the page’ (Canberra Times, May 2022)
NEWS:
Nigel reviews The Silver River, a memoir of family - lost, made and found, by Jim Moginie for Guardian Australia (2024)
Nigel reviews Frank Moorhouse: a life by Catharine Lumby and Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths by Matthew Lamb, for Guardian Australia (2023)
Hell Herons, Nigel’s spoken-word/music collective featuring Melinda Smith, CJ Bowerbird and Stuart Barnes, receives funding from artsACT to work towards a debut album, to be released in 2024
Nigel named the 2022 ACT Artist of the Year
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Nigel writes an occasional blog at Under the Counter or a Flutter in the Dovecot