Australian Poets Festival

Our Australian Poets Festival, which presents in 16 capital city literary festivals across 2016 and 2017, hosts 80-plus poets and poetry commentators annually, utilising a passion and expertise in poetry in its curating.

In 2017 we’ve linked our publications and festivals programming, making an agile, responsive and experimental model for the cultivation and dissemination of new works by contemporary Australian poets

By linking the festival and publications programs AP uniquely situates itself as a publisher which also presents an extensive, national festival events program.

Over this year, poems have been commissioned for the festival program and then selectively published in the relevant journal volume, and/or online. CEO of Australian Poetry, Jacinta Le Plastrier works closely with Australian Poets Festival director Toby Fitch, to curate new works for publication from the festival program.

APJ 7.1 theme ‘Skin’, guest poetry eds. and foreword co-authors, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van included 8 new translations of Dorothy Mackellar’s poem, ‘My Country’ commissioned by Melbourne Writers Festival and Queensland Poetry Festival 2016.

APJ 7.2 themed ‘Disruption’, guest poetry eds. and foreword co-authors, Benjamin Laird and Cassandra Atherton with poems from our partnership project ‘New Shoots’ with Red Room Poetry Company and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria for the Melbourne Writers Festival 2017.

AP @ NTWF 2021

Where: Open Air, Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT 0870, Australia When: Saturday 28 August 2021 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm   We are proud to be partnering with the Northern Territory Writers' Festival to present 'Sundown Poetry'. You can read more...

AP@DWF 2019

AP@DWF 2019

líneas en tierra / lines in land líneas en tierra / lines in land  is a bespoke e-publication produced by Australian Poetry in partnership with the Digital Writers’ Festival 2019. Edited by Tamryn Bennett and Guillermo Bátiz, it showcases selected poems by nine...

AP OutLoud Go Fund Me!

AP OutLoud Go Fund Me!

OutLoud dynamo Creative Director whiz Emilie Zoey Baker is on a mission to take the Nossal Ninjas – winners of this year’s OutLoud Secondary Final – to compete in an inter-country school slam in Auckland this December. Please support these four important...