His recent publications include No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson (Auckland UP, 2010) and a new selection of James K. Baxter¹s poetry. He is the director of the University of Canterbury¹s newly established Humanities Computing Unit. He is currently collaborating on a book about James K. Baxter’s use of classical mythology titled The Snake Haired Muse, forthcoming from Victoria UP in 2011, and he has begun researching a biography of Charles Brasch.