.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.
APJ 10.1 Open for Submissions
Submissions: open 28 April 2020. They close at 11:59pm 15 June.Australian Poetry Journal 9.2 ('DIS-' poetry guest edited by Andy Jackson and Jennifer Harrison) is now available. You can purchase a copy hereIf you would like to support Australian Poetry, receive print...
Words for Now: Poetry as Processing
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...
A Message from the AP Board – the Australia Council for the Arts Four-Year Funding Round 2021-2024
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...
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...
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
Nominations for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are now open
CONTACT USIf you have any queries please contact:AFAL Project OfficerPhone: (08) 8207 7215Email: SLSACommunityLearning@sa.gov.au 2020 AWARD NOMINATIONS OPENEntries for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are now open and close on Wednesday 31...
Queensland Literary Awards – now open
The 2019 awards are open and offer a total prize pool of $253,500. There are ten national prizes for outstanding books by Australian writers, illustrators and creators. This includes the $25,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance...
The 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry
The 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry aims to support writers and to continue the tradition of the Catholic Church as a key patron of the arts. Following the success of the Prize in previous years, the ACU Prize for Poetry will be awarded for outstanding poetry...
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