First Poetry Book Prize Winner
The judges, Ella Jeffery and Ed Wright are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 First Poetry Book Prize is Nellie Le…
Ivy Ireland, Toby Davidson, Chris Brown and Ed Wright @ The Garden Lounge
Join us @ Newtown’s The Garden Lounge Creative Space ( 573 King St) on Saturday 13 March from 4pm for readings by Ivy Ireland…
Puncher & Wattmann First Poetry Book Prize
Hurry! Entries to the biennial First Poetry Book Prize (FPBP) close December 31st. If you think you’ve got what it takes, then send us…
Plague Animals
In this long-awaited second collection, award-winning poet Rebecca Edwards distills the experience of physical and mental trauma; the breakdown of her relationship with her…
Book of the Month
Dental Tourism Mark O’Flynn A book of luminous, moving and witty short stories from one of Australia’s finest writers. Both comic and poignant, historical…
Jordie Albiston Wins the Patrick White Award
We're really pleased that Jordie Albiston has won the Patrick White Award. It's fitting recognition of an outstanding achievement in poetry. Well done Jordie!…
The Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry
The Puncher & Wattmann First Poetry Book Prize is open to any Australian who has not yet published a full-length book (we define a…
Blog posts about the new anthology
Martin Langford, one of the editors of the new P&W anthology Contemporary Australian Poetry, is our current guest blogger. In 'Anthologies and the visibility…
Anthologies and the visibility of the poem
One of the impulses behind putting the anthology together was the sense that it was becoming increasingly difficult for good poetry to become visible.…
What might an anthology of the future look like?
What might an anthology of the future look like? What do changes in the nature of the space the poem is written for imply…
Poetry and the Anxieties of the Narrative
One way of thinking of the material of the poem – and I’m being a little idiosyncratic here, so I don’t want to accuse…
Free Verse in 2017
One feature of the period covered by the anthology – easy to overlook, it’s so obvious – is the quality of the free verse…