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'Daniel Donahoo's Lego poetry is intriguing because it is both literary and, like the work of the famed poet e. e. cummings, a visual artform as well. But more than that, it is highly accessible - and wonderful for the time-poor to read and write. With a vocabulary of about 600 words printed on Lego blocks, Donahoo reassembles the blocks into delicate, poetic constructions and places them wherever he happens to be - on a parking meter, or a train ticket machine, or a park bench. He then photographs each word-sculpture with his mobile phone, posts it to various internet sites and shares the images around.' Source: The Age (Life & Style) 28 May (2011): 27

Richard Mills has been appointed Victorian Opera's incoming artistic director.

A column canvassing current literary news including news that Raimond Gaita is now a Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School, the receipt of the 2011 Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing by Geordie Williamson, the shortlist for the 2011 Nita Kibble Literary Award and Whitmore Press submissions for its poetry prize.