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Best of Australian Poems 2022

‘All poetry is story telling – an exchange between writer and reader – a meeting place – an invitation to another’s experience, history, standpoint, insight, commentary.—Jeanine Leane, Judith Beveridge.   Best of Australian Poems is a new annual anthology series...

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Australian Poetry Journal 12.1

Australian Poetry Journal 12.1—‘divergence, relevance', guest edited by Esther Ottaway and Scott-Patrick Mitchell is out now. This volume is a special one for us, as it is the first in a new-look Australian Poetry Journal series, created by new, incoming designer...

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APJ 12.1 Cover Reveal

The upcoming ‘Australian Poetry Journal 12.1—divergence, relevance’ is due to be released soon, and we welcome all new Subscribers who may wish to be part of our extraordinary community. If you are a former or current Subscriber, please make sure also to renew if...

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AP @ NYWF

We're at National Young Writers' Festival (NYWF) this year! WHAT: TOOLKITS POETRY SHOWCASE WHEN: Saturday 1 October, 7.00pm - 8:00 pm AEST WHERE: Online, Youtube. Go here to make an account and add this event to your 'watchlist'. Join Australian Poetry and Express...

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the tears
    the pelicans are leaving us like a line of words
 quicker than

the tongue drift glide sail waft fly   
fly away 
 something happened here.

     —  ‘Flight Feathers’, Ellen Van Neerven

Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 9 Open for Submissions

Submissions to the Anthology opened on Friday, 16 July, and close 11.59 pm, 20 August 2021. ​We invite all Australian Poetry subscribers to submit to the Australian Poetry Anthology, Volume 9 2021. There will be a focus on WA poets, as there was on ACT poets in 2020,...

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AP @ OutLoud! Digital Slam 2021

The 2021 OutLoud Poetry Slam has gone digital! Australian Poetry are coming together again with Emilie Zoey Baker to present our Digital youth poetry slam competition, OutLoud. For the second year in a row, we are also partnering with the wonderful Wheeler Centre, for...

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APJ 11.1 Now Open For Submissions

Submissions: open 28 April 2020. They close at 11:59pm 1 June.Australian Poetry Journal 10.2 'tribute, observations' is now available. You can purchase a copy here.If you would like to support Australian Poetry, receive print copies of Australian Poetry Journal...

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Nam Le at Sydney Writers’ Festival

  Fifteen years after his award-winning collection of stories, The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a breakthrough book of poetry. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Nam, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is “the...
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Do Not Go Gentle – Poetry Night

In his famous poem, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas exhorted us to ‘rage against the dying of the light’. In these troubled times, it can seem, however, as though the shadows only lengthen. How can poetry be a form of defiance in the face of our...
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AP @ EWF @ ‘coven’

How does magic infuse itself into the written word and into the lives of writers? What are the connections between poetic and magical practices? Hear poems from a line-up of artists weaving their practices of writing and magic together. Australian Poetry acknowledges...
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La Mama Poetica – June

La Mama Poetica will be held on Tues, 14th June at 7.30pm at the La Mama Courthouse Theatre, featuring Michael Farrell, Hasib Hourani, Melinda Bufton and Jacqui Malins. Theatre and livestream tickets available. Auslan interpreted. Bookings can be made...
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AP @ SWF 2022

With an unexpected turn of phrase or lyrical twist, poetry can surprise, thrill and invite readers to make meaning from between the lines. Hear from acclaimed Australian artists and writers Maxine Beneba Clarke and Omar Musa as they discuss their electrifying new...
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AP @ QPF 2022

We are thrilled to be partnering with Queensland Poetry Festival for three wonderful 'Poet to Poet' events this year! Head to their website to find out more: Poet to Poet — 2022 Tickets — Queensland Poetry (qldpoetry.org)
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Poetry Reading: Asiel Adán Sánchez at Readings Carlton

Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 6:30pm Readings Carlton — Woiworung Country, 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053   m//otherland is a literary debut that cradles the intimacies of longing and love for a country torn apart by distance, violence and desire. In the tradition of...
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Launch – LK Holt ‘Capacity’

After being scheduled and then cancelled last year due to the Delta outbreak, we're pleased to have the chance to join the wonderful team at the Alderman to celebrate the release of LK Holt's Capacity. Combining the twenty-six wild and precise love poems of 'Modern...
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Geoff’s Poetry at Smith’s – Mon Apr 4th

The latest in Geoff Page's monthly reading series features Peter Goldsworthy and Martin Dolan. Peter Goldsworthy is a doctor and award-winning novelist, short story writer and librettist - as well as a poet. Goldsworthy’s first collection of poetry won the...
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APA Vol. 9 WA Launch! Online

We are thrilled to bring you the online launch of the Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 9! Hosted by guest editors Lucy Dougan and Michelle Cahill, the event will kick off on March 21st at 5:30pm Perth time both via Zoom and Facebook livestream. Check back here on the...
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Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2017

judged by imtiaz dharker & michael symmons roberts prizes: 1st £2,000; 2nd £1,000; 3rd £500 plus with thanks to leading poetry magazines & troubadour coffee-house 1 two-year subscription to the manhattan review 5 one-year...

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