.Australian Poetry, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, acknowledges the custodians and owners of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Poem
The winner of the inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award was Martha Kamara. You can read more about the winner announcement here. In the words of 2025 judge Claire Gaskin: 'I finally picked as the winner the poem I felt was most resolved, which for me means the poem...
Australian Poetry Digital 2025 Volume
Welcome to AP’s inaugural AUSTRALIAN POETRY DIGITAL 1 2025 volume. Conceived as an adjunct to our annual AUSTRALIAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY, as with APA, the APD features poets who are also Subscribers. You must be a Subscriber to submit poems to either publication. ...
The Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Winner Announcement
The Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 is a new award for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via Social Media. The Award, with a prize of $1,000 for the successful poet, has been established to honour the memory of Theresa Matheson...
BOAP25 Cover Reveal
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Cover. Designed by Sophie Gaur.
the tears the pelicans are leaving us like a line of words quicker than
the tongue drift glide sail waft fly fly away something happened here.
— ‘Flight Feathers’, Ellen Van Neerven
The Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Winner Announcement
The Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 is a new award for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via Social Media. The Award, with a prize of $1,000 for the successful poet, has been established to honour the memory of Theresa Matheson...
Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 12 2025 Open for Submissions
The guest editors for APA Vol.12 are Lachlan Brown and Keri Glastonbury. Submissions to the Anthology open on Friday, 23 May, and close Monday 23 June 2025, 11.59 pm (AEST). We invite all Australian Poetry subscribers to submit. The Anthology publication date is 30...
Australian Poetry Announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 (Closed)
Australian Poetry Announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025. This new award is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. There is no entry fee but entrants do need to be current Australian Poetry...
Northern Italian Eco-Residency 2023
Each June, during the European Summer, the Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, An ECO-Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Practice, located in Taleggio Valley, Bergamo, Italy, creates the opportunity for a cross-disciplinary cohort to spent a month of creative community...