Nominations have opened for the position of Australia’s Poet Laureate, but at least at this stage, you cannot nominate ...

Geoff Page: One of the major Christmas blessings for Australian poetry lovers in the past five years has been the competing virtues of UQP's and Black Inc's 'Best Of Australian Poetry' series. This ...

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Luckily, in Jamie Grant’s ninth collection, Glass on the Chimney (Hardie Grant, 142pp, $24.95), there are quite a few rallies where the serves are accurate and the net play convincing. There is also a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s Poetry Month, which prompts me to wonder: what is the face of Australian poetry today? Could it be literary darling Nam Le, whose ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Les Murray says in his introductory remarks that most Australian poets live in Victoria. He also comments that "education and politics, ...

"The Biplane Houses" is not the first book Les Murray has dedicated "To the glory of God." Yet the Australian poet rarely invokes God directly. Such a presence can be inferred only by the subtle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Tranter (1943-2023). Photo: Susan Gordon-Brown. University of Queensland Press. Perhaps more than any Australian poet of the ...