 – a period marked by the publication of the pioneering "Poetry and Gender", which he edited with Brenda Walker – and in 1991 took up a lectureship in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.He briefly edited the journal "Helix" and oversaw its transition to "The Phoenix Review".In 1995 he published his first novel, "The House of Balthus" (based on the paintings of Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), a novel subsequently translated into German and Polish.