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AP @ Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival

Blaktivists vs Blakademics argue the toss. Should Australia Day happen on 26 January – or not – and why? It’s a serious topic but we’ve thrown in a dollop of Blak humour. With Nayuka Gorrie, Yvette Holt, Liza-Mare Syron and Jason Tamiru. Moderator Gregory...

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Poetry Sydney Newsletter

Australian Poetry is excited to be supporting the promotion of the Poetry Sydney Events Newsletter, with its current newsletter below. The newsletter is part of the Poetry Sydney website: poetrysydney.org  Each month AP will promote a link to the Poetry...

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CAPS @ AP

CAPS @ AP

Hot off the (Cap) Press at AP is this new POET cap!!! Exclusive to and made by AP, inspired by the extraordinary Emilie Zoey Baker!

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AP @ Northern Italy

On the NAHR Eco-poetry Fellowship, June 2019By Rachael MeadI stepped off the bus in the small northern Italian village of Sottochiesa to begin month long eco-poetry residency with NAHR (Nature, Art, Habitat Residency). Sottochiesa is one of several tiny...

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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

2019 ACU Prize for Poetry

Entries are now open for one of Australia’s richest poetry prizes, the 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry, with poets from all over the country competing for the coveted $10,000 first prize. The 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry will be awarded for outstanding poetry with...

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GOLFO magazine

GOLFO is a trans-continental poetry zine with a strong appetite for art and photography pairings with poetry. Poems are seen as much as they are read and GOLFO likes to heighten this sense in our publications. GOLFO responds to work that plumbs the depths...

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Out of Limbo

OUT OF LIMBO Are you LGBTQIA? Do you have a coming-out story? Verity La wants your story! Or are you LGBTQIA and not out? Verity La wants your story too! Verity La's Out of Limbo publishes the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,...

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OutLoud Slam! 2026 Heats

Get ready to be inspired by the next generation of Australian poetry.  Hosted by acclaimed poet and educator Emilie Zoey Baker, OutLoud Slam is a vibrant celebration of young voices and original storytelling. Think of it as the Eisteddfod of English class – a...

Nam Le at Sydney Writers’ Festival 2024

  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 2024

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’ 2024

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...

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