.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.
AP in solidarity with UWAP
As the national representative body for poetry in Australia, Australian Poetry (AP) wishes to expresses its deep dismay at the decision this week by the University of WA to axe its 84-year-old publishing arm, UWAP, with operations set to cease imminently....
AP@DWF 2019
líneas en tierra / lines in land líneas en tierra / lines in land is a bespoke e-publication produced by Australian Poetry in partnership with the Digital Writers’ Festival 2019. Edited by Tamryn Bennett and Guillermo Bátiz, it showcases selected poems by nine...
AP OutLoud Go Fund Me!
OutLoud dynamo Creative Director whiz Emilie Zoey Baker is on a mission to take the Nossal Ninjas – winners of this year’s OutLoud Secondary Final – to compete in an inter-country school slam in Auckland this December. Please support these four important...
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 Lifted Brow~Poetry submissions: Digital Intimacies
The Lifted Brow is now accepting poetry submissions for a special edition on the theme of DIGITAL INTIMACIES.
2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Entries are now open for the $9,000 Peter Porter Poetry PrizeJudged by John Hawke, Bronwyn Lea and Philip MeadAustralian Book Review welcomes entries in the sixteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for...
Rattle Poetry Prize
DEADLINE:July 15th The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be...
Statement and Congratulations on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 Poetry Shortlist
21 November 2017 Yesterday, the AP logo was used without the organisation's knowledge to forward social media messages critical of the Prime Minister’s fiction and poetry awards panel process. AP strongly rejects those comments. AP warmly congratulates...