Australian Poetry Journal
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Australian Poetry, established to bring together state-based poetry collectives, publishes the country’s national poetry journal, the Australian Poetry Journal. The Journal, published six-monthly, is guest-edited each issue by different voices, to ensure excellence and inclusivity. It also publishes insightful, curious articles. AP publishes an annual anthology, along with a digital volume showcasing U30s and emerging voices.
Based at Melbourne’s The Wheeler Centre, alongside the UNESCO City of Literature Office, AP also partners with the major capital city literary festivals around the country each year, producing our own events. Annually, AP presents, commissions or publishes new works by 350+ Australian poets. We run local and international residencies and mentorships, and sit at record subscriptions.
APJ 11.1 – local, attention’
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 11.1 ‘local, attention’ guest edited by Claire Gaskin and Stuart Barnes is out now.
We deeply thank the Australia Council for the Arts for funding it, within the national poetry journal that is the Australian Poetry Journal, and for the core support of Creative Victoria and the Cultural Fund, the latter who supports our publications program as it is linked to our many literary festival events.
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Publisher: Australian Poetry
Cover artwork: punctuation drawn from an 11.1 poem, by Ashley Haywood, created by Stuart Geddes
APJ 10.2 – ‘tribute, observations’
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 10.2 – ‘tribute, observations’, is out now.
We deeply thank the Australia Council for the Arts for funding it, within the national poetry journal that is the Australian Poetry Journal, and for the core support of Creative Victoria and the Cultural Fund, the latter who supports our publications program as it is linked to our many literary festival events.
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Publisher: Australian Poetry
Cover artwork: punctuation drawn from a 10.2 poem, by Aidan Coleman, created by Stuart Geddes
APJ 10.1 – ‘modern elegy
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 10.1 – ‘modern elegy’, features work by more than 60 poets, guest-edited by Ellen van Neerven, Felicity Plunkett, Eunice Andrada, and David McCooey.
In other sections of the book we feature poetry by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Moones Mansoubi; a suite of Australian Poetry/MWF festival event poems from Melbourne Writers’ Festival in 2020; and a suite of poems commissioned by Melbourne’s City of Literature Office. We are deeply grateful for the profound work in this volume, and the ethical, gifted striving of all editors and contributors
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Publisher: Australian Poetry
Cover artwork: punctuation drawn from a 10.1 poem, by Lisa Gorton, created by Stuart Geddes.
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Published with the support of Australia Council for the Arts Projects Grant 2020, the Cultural Fund, and Creative Victoria multi-year funding.
We will post mail orders placed before 11 December asap, but for any orders made after 11 December, these cannot be posted until AP returns from its summer leave in the week of 11 January 2021.
APJ 9.2 – ‘DIS─’
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 9.2 – ‘DIS─’, features new works by more than 60 poets and visual artists, with poetry guest-edited by well-known poets and advocates for writers with self-identified disability/ies, Andy Jackson and Jennifer Harrison. They have curated close to 100 pages of unique poetry and poetic visual texts, dedicated to poetry provoked by their powerful call-out, which included this:
Around one in five of us are disabled, but what about the poems? Maybe, on one level, poetry has always been disabled – the limping pentameter; the disrupted, fragmented speech; the unsettling shapes they make on the page and in the ear. But it also seems that disability has been under-represented, and still holds the unfulfilled promise to expand and renew what poetry can do.
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Publisher: Jacinta Le Plastrier
Cover artwork: punctuation drawn from a 9.1 poem, created by Stuart Geddes.
Published with the support of Australia Council for the Arts Projects Grant 2019, and with organisational core funding from Creative Victoria. Cultural Fund funding will also support any festival presentations of the Journal poems post publication.
For sale orders made from 17 December 2019 until 20 January 2020, these orders will be posted after AP returns from its summer leave after 20 January.
APJ 9.1 – ‘resist!’
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 9.1 – ‘resist’, features new works by more than 70 Australian poets and commentators, with poetry guest-edited by prominent and long-term poet and editor activist, John Kinsella, who is remote WA-based. He has curated close to 100 pages of unique poetry, dedicated to poetry as resistance, including poems by numerous First Nations poets, known and emerging, and poets from across Australia. There are also riveting articles, themed to ‘resist!’, creating an unexpected, powerful and impactful 136-page volume.
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Publisher: Jacinta Le Plastrier
Cover artwork: punctuation drawn from a 9.1 poem, created by Stuart Geddes.
Published with the support of Australia Council for the Arts Projects Grant 2019, and with organisational core funding from Creative Victoria
APJ 8.2 – ‘spoken
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 8.2 – ‘spoken’, features new works by more than 60 Australian poets, with poetry guest-edited by prominent spoken-word poets and curators, Andrew Galan and David Stavanger. They have curated 42 poems, selected with a focus on producing the first in-print journal of Australian spoken word; it also includes one suite by American poet, Adam Day. This section includes a poem by the late, highly esteemed Candy Royalle. Following the ‘spoken’ selection is a separate section of 19 poems, which are all new works commissioned by Australian Poetry and presented across three of its 2018 festival events – at Sydney Writers’ Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, and Queensland Poetry Festival. Edited by Toby Fitch, this Big Bent series is an exploration of gender and language queering. In a new publication development for AP, both sections of poems are accompanied by sound-recordings. In the case of the ‘spoken’ section, 15 poets have been recorded, along with a pre-existing recording of Candy performing her poem. In the case of the Big Bent section, the seven poets who read at MWF have been recorded. To access both recordings, go to the AP homepage: australianpoetry.org
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Publisher: Jacinta Le Plastrier
Cover artwork: Photograph by Roya Ann Miller on Unsplash
Published with the support of Australia Council for the Arts Projects Grant 2018. The festival poems were commissioned with the support of the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
APJ 8.1
‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 8.1, features new works by more than 50 Australian poets, with poetry guest-edited by prominent Australian poet, critic and editor, Gig Ryan. Alongside her curating are curious and insightful articles and reviews, including an interview with the three editors responsible for Lionel Fogarty’s New & Selected Poems (re:press, 2017), a tribute to John Forbes on the 20th anniversary year of his premature death, and a wrap-up of this year’s 2018 AP/NAHR Northern Italian eco-poetics fellowship, awarded to Eunice Andrada.
Designer: Stuart Geddes
Cover artwork: John Nixon
Untitled, (Orange) wood circle 2017 • Enamel and timber on canvas / 25 x 20 cm White/Blue wall
Courtesy: Laure Genillard, London
Photo Credit: Plastiques.co
John Nixon is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
APJ 7.2
In the second of a new series of ‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 7.2– ‘work’ features new works by 40 Australian poets, with poetry guest-edited by Benjamin Laird and Cassandra Atherton. Alongside their curating is a separate long collections of poems by ten poets commissioned to write new works for the New Shoots Victoria project presented at Melbourne Writers Festival 2017, along with their poetic ‘Reflections’, and the three new poems commissioned for the Voices of Trees project presented at the Digital Writers’ Festival 2017. AP thanks all partners involved in these projects, including Red Room Poetry and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Cover artwork : Albert Tucker : Designer: Stuart Geddes
APJ 7.1
In the first of a new series of ‘Australian Poetry Journal’, Volume 7.1 – ‘skin’ features new works by 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander poets, with poetry guest-edited by two of the country’s most prominent Aboriginal poets – Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van Neerven. Alongside their curating of two extensive sets of poems, is a separate long collections of poems by 12 poets commissioned to write new works fpr Australian Poetry’s major capital city and emerging literary festival events; this project is edited by Toby Fitch.
Cover artwork : Destiny Deacon : Designer: Stuart Geddes
APJ 6.2
In Michael Sharkey’s last issue as editor, a focus on poets and poetry from Tasmania. Poems by Lucas Smith, Jane Williams, Ron Petty, Rachael Guy, Emilia Maggio; essays by Zeina Issa and Chris Ringrose; reviews by Vrasidas Karalis and Petra White, front cover artwork by Tasmanian artist Julia Castiglioni, and much more by many others.
Editor: Michael Sharkey : Designer: Stuart Geddes
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APJ 6.1
In this issue, concatenations: large and small celebrations, deaths of poets, a curious run of eulogies and the fortuitous confluence of several essays on poetry by women and women in publishing. Poems by Sam Wagan Watson, Judith Beveridge, Atheer Al-Khalfa; essays by Helen Nickas and Carol Jenkins, interview by Heather Taylor Johnson; reviews by Charlotte Clutterbuck, John Hawke and Tracy Ryan, front cover artwork by Winifred Belmont, and much more by many others.
Editor: Michael Sharkey : Designer: Stuart Geddes
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APJ 5.2
Essays by Dan Disney, Un Gyung Yi and Daye Jeon, Adrian Caesar, Nicolette Stasko, RD Wood, reviews by Julian Croft and Caitlin Maling, and poetry by Ken Chau, Lesley Lebkowicz, Ivy Alvarez, Josh Mei-Ling Dubrau, front cover artwork by Lise Temple and much more by many others.
Editor: Michael Sharkey : Designer: Stuart Geddes
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APJ 5.1
Includes an essay by Bonny Cassidy, a review by Andy Jackson, an interview with Samuel Wagan Watson by Paul Magee, poems by Jane Frank, Lynne Arjava, Ouyang Yu, Anne Caitlin Maling, front cover artwork by Kampala Girgiba and much more by many others.
Editor: Michael Sharkey : Designer: Stuart Geddes
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APJ 4.2
Read about the tension between politics and poetics, topics from the far left to the far right and the links between ideology and ideal words. With an interview by Vivian Gerrand, reviews by Michelle Borzi and Christopher Ringrose, essays by Oscar Schwartz and Simon Patton, poems y Ali Jane Smith, Sergio Holas, Penny O’Hara, front cover artwork by Philip Cordingly and much more by many others.
Editor: Michael Sharkey : Designer: Stuart Geddes
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APJ 4.1
Essays by Ali Jane Smith, Philip Salom, Peter Kirkpatrick; poems by Anne M. Carson, Yve Louis, Jane Williams, Connie Barber; reviews by Martin Duwell, Morgan Yasbincek, front cover artwork by Amber Wallis, and much more by many others.
Editor: Michael Sharkey : Designer: Stuart Geddes
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APJ 3.2
In her fifth and final volume as the editor of Australian Poetry Journal, #concrete, Bronwyn Lea shines a light on the Australian and international poets who are bringing language in all its iterations to the forefront of their work. For the first time, the journal also includes colour pages, highlighting the importance and effectiveness of the visual aspects of concrete poetry. Poetry by Toby Fitch, Angela Gardner, Amarilys Quintero Ruiz, Michael Farrell, Ibrahim Abu Touq, spotlight by π.o.; criticism by Alison Clifton, Alex Selenitsch and much more by many others.
Editor: Bronwyn Lea ; Designer: Tiara Queen.
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APJ 3.1
Humans may prefer to distinguish themselves from all other multicellular, eukaryotic organisms, but ‘humans’ live only in the philosopher’s imagination. In the eyes of biologists we are Homo sapiens of Kingdom Animalia. Questions of taxonomy come under the microscope in this edition of Australian Poetry Journal. Poetry by Sarah Day, John Kinsella, Maria Takolander; spotlight by Anthony Laurence, criticism by David McCooey, Melissa Ashley and much more by many others.
Editor: Bronwyn Lea ; Designer: Tiara Queen.
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APJ 2.2
#art features new poetry by renowned Australian and international poets, including Christian Bök, Luke Davies, Diane Fahey, Sarah Holland-Batt, Carmen Leigh Keates, Anthony Lawrence, Rosanna Licari, Nikola Madzirov, Iman Mersal, Peter Rose, Philip Salom, spotlight by Robert Adamson, criticism by Kate Lilley, Stuart Cooke and much more by many others.
Editor: Bronwyn Lea ; Designer: Tiara Queen.
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APJ 2.1
This issue #technology, includes new poetry from poets across the country including Margaret Bradstock, Amy Brown, Michael Farrell, John Kinsella and Maria Takolander as well as international poets Sudeep Sen, Alvin Pang and Ron Winkler. Also featured is Felicity Plunkett’s spotlight on the poetry of Gwen Harwood, a review of Australian poetry from 1788 – 2012, and book reviews of recent poetry collections along with criticism by Martin Duwell and Michael Sharkey.
Editor: Bronwyn Lea ; Designer: Tiara Queen.
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APJ 1
The inaugural issue of Australian Poetry Journal contemplates what poets talk about when they talk about beginnings: fifty poems by celebrated as well as new voices, poetry reviews and criticism, spotlight on the past, publishing news, and more. Poetry by John Kinsella, Jill Jones, Clive James, Misbah Khokhar; criticism by Bonny Cassidy; spotlight by Judith Beveridge and much more by many others.
Editor: Bronwyn Lea ; Design: 3sidedsquare.com