.Australian Poetry, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, acknowledges the custodians and owners of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021 Open for Submissions
Submissions: open 8 October 2020. They close at 11:59pm 14 December. Publication is planned by First Nations Australia Writers Network FNAWN for March 2021. SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR FN COVID-19 Anthology 2021. POETRY IS GUEST EDITED BY CHARMAINE PAPERTALK GREEN AND...
AP/Smith’s/Poetry on the Move @ Australian Poetry Anthology Vol 8, 2020
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...
AP/MWF @ Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, Canada with Margaret Atwood reading
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival, in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets, is delighted to join forces with Australian Poetry and the Melbourne Writers Festival to showcase Canadian and Australian poets for audiences in both countries. These two national...
AP @ NTWF 2020
Nature of Change Poetry Walk On a short, guided morning walk through the glorious tropical and monsoon flora at the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens, poets share poems about the cycles of change, transformation and regeneration that shape our lives and our...
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
The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia
'We who care deeply about the arts find ourselves the priesthood of an almost forgotten faith, and we must, I think, if we would win the people again, take upon ourselves the method and fervour of a priesthood. We must be humble and half-proud. . . . We...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2020
Entries for all categories of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are now open.
Entries for MPU International Poetry Competition close on Aug 28
The 2019 IPC is generously supported by Readings Books & Music. 2019 IPCFirst piece of important business is that the 25th annual MPU International Poetry Competition has five days left to get your entries in (extended deadline). The final closing date...
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