A laureateship will force government, academic and literary institutions to confront their wilful neglect of poetry – and ask poets to begin to look outward, too A good friend of mine, a Tasmanian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The inaugural Australian poet laureate will be appointed in 2025 as part of the federal Labor government’s new National Cultural ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A new anthology, Australian Poetry since 1788, includes more than 170 poets. Its contents range from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The academic dean in the School of Indigenous Studies at the Australian University of Divinity, Garry Deverell, provides one context in ...

John Kinsella publishes with UWAP. He receives royalties from the sale of his UWAP books. He is a Professor in the Humanities at Curtin University. I start with a disclaimer: I am a UWA Publishing ...

I realise that sounds rather rude, but it in fact refers to payment historically given to the UK’s poet laureate, in exchange for what, exactly? The brief is vague. Maybe try to write some poems that ...

SPOTLIGHT | A time for rhyme? Evelyn Araluen’s Dropbear collection sold 15,000-plus copies - an exception in terms of poetry readership.Scott McNaughton / The Age Then there’s the proliferation of ...

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 ...

It wasn’t something to say out loud growing up in Liverpool, but I fell in love with poetry as a young boy and I’ve been faithful to it ever since. For years I even wrote some poems of my own, ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) Dorothea Mackellar's poem from 1908, My Country , is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged ...