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 debut poetry book, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, is being ...

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Jazz Money reflects on her relationship with Country where does the wind begin and how to make my body fit ...

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Godfrey reflects on rage, gender and building intensity through flickering imagery Australian Poetry Month: ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jennifer Compton is a Melbourne-based poet and playwright. Her poem Physics, which appears in the ...

Les Murray says in his introductory remarks that most Australian poets live in Victoria. He also comments that "education and politics, above all, have gone far to muffle and reduce poetry and turn ...

Hirshfield’s poetry, translations and essays have received numerous awards, with the Polish Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz praising her work for its ‘‘profound empathy for all living beings’’ and ...

and all that will outlast us. And this now outlasts him: a parting gift of poems. And how were they found? In the most remarkable circumstances by those who loved him. Murray’s great friend, Jamie ...

Erudite and urbane, David Malouf — perhaps most famous for his portrait of mid-century Brisbane in his 1975 novel Johnno — ...