He was a high school teacher of English and History for twenty-two years and then a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and University Preparation, as well as Business English, for eighteen years. His chapbook Not the Rain, the Wind was published by the Melbourne Poets Union and two later collections, Lines Continue For Ever and The Long Way Home, are published by Ginninderra Press, who have also published the five chapbooks in the Reworkings series, as well as four other chapbooks, Sydney Central, Play It Louder, Putting To Sea and A Safe Harbour. He considers himself a poet of memory and the sea but also writes about the natural world, the urban environment and social issues.