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 mountain ranges, droughts and ...

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

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 ...

It’s not. In fact, it’s not even close. How can it be when the four editors completely omitted a genre of Australian verse that has enjoyed a great deal of popularity during this period? I read ...

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 ...

The events where Australian readers have long gathered to hear writers speak about their work are often annual (like festivals) and mostly in the big cities. As podcasts have become a way Australians ...

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 ...

Contemporary Australian poetry is such a rich field, and so unjustly neglected, I find it hard to narrow these recommendations down, so just think of this as an introductory sampler. Hopefully all the ...