.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.
AP/Smith’s/Poetry on the Move @ Australian Poetry Anthology Vol 8, 2020
For those who missed the live-streamed/zoom APA Vol 8 launch, you can check it here as a free playback. The Anthology, guest edited by Melinda Smith and Sara Saleh, is a bumper volume with more than 120 poets, national in spread but with a focus on ACT poets. You can...
AP/MWF @ Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, Canada with Margaret Atwood reading
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival, in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets, is delighted to join forces with Australian Poetry and the Melbourne Writers Festival to showcase Canadian and Australian poets for audiences in both countries. These two national...
AP @ NTWF 2020
Nature of Change Poetry Walk On a short, guided morning walk through the glorious tropical and monsoon flora at the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens, poets share poems about the cycles of change, transformation and regeneration that shape our lives and our...
AP @ OutLoud Digital Slam! 2020 Final
After much thought and process Australian Poetry have again decided to come together with Emilie Zoey Baker to present our youth poetry slam competition, OutLoud. For the first time, we are also partnering with the amazing Wheeler Centre, to livestream a Slam Final in...
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
AP @ OutLoud Digital Slam! 2020 Final
After much thought and process Australian Poetry have again decided to come together with Emilie Zoey Baker to present our youth poetry slam competition, OutLoud. For the first time, we are also partnering with the amazing Wheeler Centre, to livestream a Slam Final in...
Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize
Entries are now invited for the Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize. Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English...
The 2021 Somerset National Poetry Prize
The 2021 Somerset National Poetry Prize is now open for entries. Download the conditions of entry here.
NAHR Australian Poetry Fellowship 2020 – Judges’ comments
Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship.We are thrilled to announce that Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship. Mindy will take up residency in the village of Sottochiesa, Taleggio Valley, northern Italy,...