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AP & TWC present: Best of Australian Poems Vol. 1 2021

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 6.30pm-7.30pm at wheelercentre.com     Book now   Aural Events: Best of Australian Poetry   'The act of writing is an aural event.' Ania Walwicz   Best of Australian Poetry is a new annual anthology collecting previously...

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APJ 11.2 Now Open for Submissions

Submissions: open 30 September 2021. They close at 11:59pm 28 October 2021.Australian Poetry Journal 11.1 'local, attention' is now available. You can purchase a copy here.If you would like to support Australian Poetry, receive print copies of Australian Poetry...

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AP & Cordite @ NYWF 2021

Celebrate the publication of Volume 5 of Tell Me Like You Mean It, an e-chapbook published by Australian Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review and edited by Danny Silva Soberano, as five fresh new poets take to the stage and show you what they’re made of.   Artists...

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AP @ Hobart Writers Festival

We are very excited to be partnering with Hobart Writers Festival for two events this year! Check them out below - Writers give to and feed on the moments in which they create. Our moment is on edge, with multiple pressures impacting globally not just on ourselves but...

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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 FeathersEllen Van Neerven

Poetica Christi Press 2020 Poetry Competition

Closing date: April 30th, 2020. Poems up to 50 lines (inc.spaces) on the theme Joy in the morning.  1st prize $300, 2nd prize $100, top 25 poems to be published in an anthology. Entries $7 each or 3 for $20. Entry forms available at www.poeticachristi.org.au or from...

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Emerging Older Poets Mentorship

The Emerging Older Poets Mentorship is designed to address a lack of opportunities in the 55+ age bracket. So many great writers come to their craft later in life, and create wonderfully rich and meaningful work as a result. Due to an overwhelmingly positive response...

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XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word

In its 6th year, the Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word is Australia’s only national arts award that recognises the growing field of spoken word and is named after the former 2010 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence, Emily XYZ, who left a deep...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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...

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...

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...

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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