by Australian Poetry | May 18, 2024 | AP Projects, News
Poetry is a language for life. At this time please help Australian Poetry make meaningful impacts as we run our extensive publications and festival events calendars. Donations small ($2 up) or larger are all loved at AP. All tax-deductible. Our 2024 Donations Drive...
by Australian Poetry | Oct 6, 2020 | News, Readings, events and launches
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...
by Australian Poetry | Sep 9, 2020 | AP Projects, News
For those who missed the live-streamed/zoom APA Vol 8 launch, you can check it here as a free playback. The Anthology, guest edited by Melinda Smith and Sara Saleh, is a bumper volume with more than 120 poets, national in spread but with a focus on ACT poets. You can...
by Australian Poetry | Apr 23, 2020 | AP Projects, News, Readings, events and launches
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...
by Australian Poetry | Apr 3, 2020 | AP Projects, Misc, News
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...
by Australian Poetry | Apr 3, 2020 | AP Projects, News
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...
