The artistic directors of Red Room Poetry share a list of unmissable titles for seasoned readers and newcomers alike Did they miss your favourite? Tell us in the ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Tranter (1943-2023). Photo: Susan Gordon-Brown. University of Queensland Press. Perhaps more than any Australian poet of the 20th Century, John Tranter, who died last Friday at the age of 79, was ...

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 ...

In 1944, 23-year-old Max Harris was an Adelaide-based poet and co-editor of modernist art and literary journal Angry Penguins. In that year's edition, he featured the poems of Ern Malley who, it was ...

Judith Wright is a giant of Australian letters. Though most famous as a poet, she was also a very fine writer in prose, and it is this dimension of her writing that is brought to life in a new ...