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Rabbit Annual 2025: Launch Event, Melbourne
Wed, 10 Dec, 6pm - 8pm AEDT The Wheeler Centre Melbourne VIC, Australia You are warmly invited to the launch of the first Rabbit Annual, from the team at Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. (Free, though please register through the Humanitix link). ...
Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Poem
The winner of the inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award was Martha Kamara. You can read more about the winner announcement here. In the words of 2025 judge Claire Gaskin: 'I finally picked as the winner the poem I felt was most resolved, which for me means the poem...
Australian Poetry Digital 2025 Volume
Welcome to AP’s inaugural AUSTRALIAN POETRY DIGITAL 1 2025 volume. Conceived as an adjunct to our annual AUSTRALIAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY, as with APA, the APD features poets who are also Subscribers. You must be a Subscriber to submit poems to either publication. ...
The Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Winner Announcement
The Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 is a new award for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via Social Media. The Award, with a prize of $1,000 for the successful poet, has been established to honour the memory of Theresa Matheson...
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
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2024 Call-out (Closed)
Best of Australian Poems 2024 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 3 July 2024. Closes 1 August 2024, 11:59PM. **Please be advised that if you encounter the message "Sorry, but Best of Australian Poetry 2023 is no longer...
Announcing the Winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023
The winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 is Sara M Saleh with The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023) General comments from the judging panel Jeanine Leane, Panda Wong and Harry Reid: As judges, we were struck by the breadth of style, form, and subject...
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 13.2 ‘desire’ – GUEST EDITED BY ELLEN VAN NEERVEN
APJ 13.2 seeks work that engages with different types of desire, including but not limited to: the desire to connect, to look after Country, the desire for a future and for justice, freedom and health. Through this gathering of poems let’s fiercely examine ideas of...
NAHR / AP Northern Italian eco-residency for 2023
Announcing the Australian Poetry & NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship 2023, Four weeks, June 2023 The theme is AIR In partnership with the Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR), Australian Poetry is once again pleased...