Australian Poets Festival
Our Australian Poets Festival, which presents in 16 capital city literary festivals across 2016 and 2017, hosts 80-plus poets and poetry commentators annually, utilising a passion and expertise in poetry in its curating.
In 2017 we’ve linked our publications and festivals programming, making an agile, responsive and experimental model for the cultivation and dissemination of new works by contemporary Australian poets
By linking the festival and publications programs AP uniquely situates itself as a publisher which also presents an extensive, national festival events program.
Over this year, poems have been commissioned for the festival program and then selectively published in the relevant journal volume, and/or online. CEO of Australian Poetry, Jacinta Le Plastrier works closely with Australian Poets Festival director Toby Fitch, to curate new works for publication from the festival program.
APJ 7.1 theme ‘Skin’, guest poetry eds. and foreword co-authors, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Ellen van included 8 new translations of Dorothy Mackellar’s poem, ‘My Country’ commissioned by Melbourne Writers Festival and Queensland Poetry Festival 2016.
APJ 7.2 themed ‘Disruption’, guest poetry eds. and foreword co-authors, Benjamin Laird and Cassandra Atherton with poems from our partnership project ‘New Shoots’ with Red Room Poetry Company and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria for the Melbourne Writers Festival 2017.
Quantum Words 2018 Science Poetry Competition – Shortlist
The judges have now made their selection, and the poems have been shortlisted for the Quantum Words 2018 Science Poetry Competition,
Victoria’s fiercest young poets battled at OutLoud Eco!Slam 2018
SEVEN SCHOOLS fought to claim the title of Victoria’s finest and fiercest spoken-wordsters as they battled it out at the grand final of OUTLOUD ECO!SLAM 2018, a high-school poetry slam competition, created by Australian Poetry in partnership...
Blakwork: a reading and yarn with Alison Whittaker
photograph: Jonno Revanche Recorded live 13 August 2018 at The Wheeler Centre, this event was presented by the Melbourne Visiting Poets Program 2018, in partnership with Australian Poetry, Melbourne Spoken Word and the RMIT non/fictionLab. Alison Whittaker...
AP Presents Collective Spirit with Ali Cobby Eckermann
Sunday 14 October 2018 3.00pm - 4.00 pm The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Free, bookings essential. AP, in partnership with The Wheeler Centre and Kalang Retreat, presents Collective Spirit. Poetry has always been a powerful...
AP @ Melbourne Writers Festival 2018: The Big Bent
In partnership with Cordite Publishing Inc. AP is heading to MWF 2018! Alert your synapses to a poetic exploration of gender and queerness, featuring poets Broede Carmody, Quinn Eades, Michael Farrell, Kate Lilley, Lian Low, Harry Reid and Ania Walwicz....