.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.
A Message from the AP Board – the Australia Council for the Arts Four-Year Funding Round 2021-2024
While deeply disappointed at our inability to secure four-year funding, Australian Poetry will continue to provide outstanding opportunities for Australia’s poets, across all states and territories, and for all types of poetry. We remain appreciative of the separate...
Australian Poetry notes with sadness the passing of Bruce Dawe, aged 90. Dawe, born in Fitzroy, in 1930, was perhaps the first poet to find a way to turn the lives of suburban Australians into poetry – poems which often had an undertow of elegy, as if in recognition...
AP @ SWF 2020
Australian Poetry supports and respects ‘the inevitable but nonetheless devastating decision’ of Sydney Writers’ Festival to cancel its 2020 program. We will do all that we can to support its podcasting and digital and other avenues as these are released across the...
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,...
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
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award – Now Open
Further your involvement in the literary world with our friends at Aesthetica Mag. The Creative Writing Award is now open for entries. Submit your Poetry and Short Fiction work and win £1,000 + publication within an inspiring anthology. Find out more:...
Writers Wanted!
From Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office: We know that lots of writers and creatives have had the regular work they do to keep them writing cancelled due to the Covid situation. We are looking for ways to support our City of Literature community at this time....
Starting Blocks With Sandra Thibodeaux
STARTING BLOCKS WITHSANDRA THIBODEAUXDARWIN: March 14Got a great idea but don’t know where to start? Starting Blocks is a hands-on workshop that will take you through the basic elements of creative writing, such as description, character, plot, structure, dialogue and...
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,...