Readings, events and launches

'That Poetry Thing That Is On At Smith's Every Other Monday': Not Very Quiet Presents - Poetry on Holiday 15th January  Smith's Alternative, Alinga St, Canberra City.

'That Poetry Thing That Is On At Smith's Every Other Monday': Monica Carroll 8th January - $5 on the door - includes open mic Smith's Alternative, Alinga St, Canberra City.

18th December - 7pm to 9pm Special Farewell and Thankyou to Josh Inman Event. Smith's Alternative, Alinga St, Canberra City.

11th December - 7pm to 9pm - Double Book Launch Owen Bullock's Work and Play + Metamorphic (International Poetry Anthology) Free entry - no open mic Smith's Alternative, Alinga St, Canberra City. Brought to you by Canberra's own sub-atomic poetry publisher, Recent...

'That Poetry Thing That Is On At Smith's Every Other Monday' Miranda Lello and Sarah Rice Smith's Alternative, Alinga St, Canberra City. 4th December - 7pm to 9pm $5 on the door - includes open mic Miranda Lello is a Canberra poet and performer whose debut poetry...

'That Poetry Thing That Is On At Smith’s Every Other Monday’: Opened Mind - Poems that inspire us with Paul Magee, Melinda Smith & Owen Bullock. 20th November, 7.30pm, Smiths Alternative, Alinga St, Canberra City. Free. Three poets read great works that have...

Raising the Bar: Welcoming Words: Searching for Asylum in Poetry Negative representations of asylum seekers have been a hallmark of recent political discourse around the world. But re-visiting literary motifs and incorporating these into contemporary poetry...

  On the second Tuesday of November, the poetry night at Sappho hill play host to AVANT GAGA #32 with guest poets Chris Mansell, Richard Tipping, Eunice Andrada, Jocelyn Deane, and Radha Wahyuwidayat, plus the usual open mic section. November 14, 19:00–22:00,...

Launch of Andy Jackson's Music Our Bodies Can't Hold (Hunter Publishers), on  Saturday 9th December, 2pm. Collected Works Bookshop, Level 1, 37 Swanston St Melbourne, speech by Joel Deane

Join us for End-of-Year party, Sunday 10 December 2018, 12 noon. Everyone Welcome. Picnic in the Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy, under the MPU banner. Attendees to bring their own food and drink, and be prepared to read celebratory poems.  

2017 MPU International Poetry Competition Awards night at Collected Works Bookshop, Melbourne. Friday 23 November 2018, 6.30 for 7.00pm MC for Awards night is Di Cousens. Our judge Judith Rodriguez will deliver the Judges Report and announce the winners. The 13...

James McAuley at St. Peter’s Catholic Church Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 2 pm ($25) A Concert hosted by St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 585 Toorak Road, Toorak The hymns of James ‘Jim’ McAuley (12 October 1917- 15 October 1976) are sung throughout the Western Christian...

Poets at the Petersham Bowl, open mic soiree, Thurs 16 Nov, 6.30 till 9.30pm. Poems, short stories, comedy, acoustic music. Free admission. Sign up to present on the night. 77 Brighton St, Petersham NSW 2049

7.30pm Tuesday October 31, La Mama Courthouse Theatre 349 Drummond Street, Carlton $12 full - $8 concession La Mama Poetica is a night of some of the best spoken word and poetry that Melbourne has to offer, with a diverse selection of both emerging and established...

Australian poet, Judith Wright who died in 2000 was a long-time activist for the Great Barrier Reef. Writing in 1996, she said “To me it’s a kind of miracle that things have gone so well for the Great Barrier Reef.” In The Coral Battleground she documented the work of...

Martin Harrison Archive Launch  Celebrating Martin Harrison   We are celebrating two events: The completion of the Guide to the Martin Harrison Archives. The physical archives are now held at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS). The completion of a...

November 4th, Saturday 5pm to 6.15pm, PoetryAlive@Stanley Street gallery 52-54 Stanley St, Darlinghurst, Sydney With Sarah Rice and Omar Sakr. Harry Laing will MC and do a spot of satire. Entry $15 includes refreshments (concession...