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 ...

August is Poetry Month, featuring events, readings, workshops and newly commissioned poems from poets and poetry enthusiasts around Australia. Guardian Australia has teamed up with Red Room Poetry to ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are a few intrepid small presses that continue to publish Australian poetry, such as Puncher & Wattmann, which has now published a hefty anthology of contemporary Australian poetry edited by ...

The poetry-curious politician might like to start with Joanne Burns’s brush(Giramondo, 120pp, $24). Burns is serious but funny. She collects bits and pieces ...