Writers making a stand
Turkey and Twitter Major authors have joined a PEN International appeal to end the Turkish government's attempts to block access to Twitter. A letter…
Forthcoming and recent Titles
Slush Pile by Ian Shadwell was launched on 29th June at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Other recent fiction releases include Out…
Poetica feature on Contemporary Asian Australian Poets anthology
On Saturday 22 March, Radio National's Poetica featured the Puncher & Wattman anthology Contemporary Asian Australian Poets. You can listen to or download the program…
P&W Christmas Party Melbourne
P&W Christmas Party Dec 1. Great to see Melbourne hipsters, Vic region and P&W afficionados in one happy throng. Terrific readings from Ken Bolton,…
Rug up for a poetry reading at Sappho Books and Cafe
51 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 7 pm Tuesday, 13 August 2013 Julie Chevalier, Berndt Selheim, James Stuart, Ali Smith
Darger: His Girls won the Alec Bolton Prize for best unpublished poetry manuscript 2011
Darger: His Girls won the Alec Bolton Prize for best unpublished poetry manuscript 2011 and is shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Poetry…
Peter Kirkpatrick’s Westering wins the William Baylebridge Prize
Peter Kirkpatrick's Westering has shared the 2007 William Baylebridge Prize with Simon West's The Yellow Gum's Conversion.
Simon West’s First Names Wins the William Baylebridge Prize
Simon West's First Names has shared the 2007 William Baylebridge Prize with Peter Kirkpatrick's Westering.
Plagiarism epidemic
The poetry world in the UK has been rocked by two recent plagiarism scandals. In the first, which was exposed in the Guardian on…