Readings, events and launches

The latest Poets’ Corner YouTube podcast featuring South Australian poet Juan Garrido-Salgado talking about and reading poems on the theme of “Politics in the Lands of the poet.”   It can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/v8u5YcJC8Rw   To view previous Poets’...

Wendy Sharpe, detail from “The woman that she was”, oil on linen, 90x76cm, 2020Friday, August 20th, 8pm AEST   Come celebrate with us! 'Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry' is being launched. This collection of specially commissioned feminist...

This month, Giramondo publishes two new books – a darkly funny work of fiction by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, and a new poetry collection by Jane Gibian that considers the human relation to the delicate ecologies that surround us. Marked by its absurdist humour,...

Monday 9 August - 7pm to 9pm Entry $10 / $5. Open mic Join us live at Smiths Alternative for two fresh local poetic voices: Sophie Mackay and Emily Bourke. Sophie is a Canberra local with a lifelong passion for reading. That early love of the written word eventually...

The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre will be running the Geelong launch of Maria Takolander's Trigger Warning as a live Zoom Webinar event this Saturday at 3.00pm. If you’re interested, please register at https://events.grlc.vic.gov.au/event/5195043 Maria will also...

Join us for readings by two outstanding poets. Jennifer Harrison has written eight books of poetry, most recently Anywhy (Black Pepper 2018). She manages The Dax Poetry Collection housed in the Dax Centre at the University of Melbourne and is Chair of the World...

APJ 11.1 is now available for purchase by clicking the image above. Please note that the font on the front cover will be printed in silver foil ink, not white. Designed by Stuart Geddes. Cover punctuation taken from 'Scheme of Things' by Ashley Haywood, p. 47....

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...

Sunday, 1 August 2021 10:30 am 1:30 pm Queensland Writers Centre Stanley Place South Brisbane, QLD, 4101 Australia (map)   Harness associative leaps to craft poems that are distinctly yours. Associative leaps are personal connections in our mind that are not...

From the MPL 2021: "THANK YOU  Thank you to the Victorian literary sector, publishers and the many sector journals, websites and organisations for supporting the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2021 & Awards. During this difficult time, we have had an entry result...

From the back cover: ​ The latest collection from Benjamin Dodds interprets the bizarre true story of Lucy, a chimpanzee raised as the "daughter" of Oklahoma psychotherapist Dr Maurice Temerlin during the 1960s and 70s. With deep empathy and en eye for subtle, telling...

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of poet Martin Johnston. Born in Sydney and brought up in Greece, Martin Johnston produced a body of work that is both very Australian and quintessentially European. This new anthology includes his two published...

Date : 24 September 2020  Venue: Online Council Event Cost: Free Details here: https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/Library_Databases/Library_Programs/Lunchtime_Readings_with_the_Don_Bank_Writers Do something different at lunchtime and Join us for some lunchtime...

  Just Announced: AP @ MWF Digital 2020 Australian Poetry are thrilled to partner with Melbourne Writers Festival for their 2020 Digital program to present 'Meditations in an Emergency', a morning of poetic performance. Sat Aug 8 11:00 AM Online; 60 Mins Tickets...

Australian Poetry and Poetry on the Move Online present the launch of Australian Poetry Anthology Volume 8 (Focus on the ACT). Online only, via Zoom and pre-recorded readings, live-streamed to Australian Poetry’s Facebook Page. 6.30pm for 7pm, 20th July! This annual...

Founded in 2015, the University of Canberra's Poetry on the Move is a fully curated festival run by the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. IPSI’s objectives are to promote poetry as a globally valuable art form through the engagement...

not in Aus, mate bad things don’t happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn Australian Poetry is thrilled to announce that we are taking to the digital stage with this incredible evening in collaboration with The Wheeler...

The University of Canberra’s Poetry on the Move festival and COVID-19. The University of Canberra’s Centre for Creative and Cultural Research is responding to ongoing uncertainty about the COVID-19 virus by heeding the advice of experts and the government, and...

Please join Transit Lounge publishing for the launch of Jennifer McKenzie's new book, Navigable Ink. April 1, 6pm Launched by Lucy Van A homage to the Indonesian writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “This intricate, inventive collection of poems compels the reader to follow...

    Tomorrow from 18:30-20:30       Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre 251 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053, Carlton, Victoria, Australia 3053 Melbourne Poets Union opens its 2020 program by inviting all poets & poetry lovers to an open mic reading &...