Mary Gilmore Awards Shortlistees
Huge congratulations to Ella Jeffery (Dead Bolt) and Chris Brown (Hotel Universo) who have been shortlisted for ASAL’s Mary Gilmore Award for a first…
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…
Paula Green reviews Foxstruck in the NZ Poetry Shelf
https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2021/06/15/poetry-shelf-review-shari-kochers-foxstruck-and-other-collisions/
Kevin Brophy, ‘Look at the Lake’ reviewed in ABR
Look at the Lake – review by Joan Fleming in Australian Book Review, September 2018 Kevin Brophy’s latest book is a record of the…
Alex Skovron, ‘The Man who Took to his Bed’ reviewed in ABR
The Man who Took to his Bed – review by Jill Jones in Australian Book Review This is a playful, intelligent, unsettling series of…
Michael Carter, ‘Being Prepared: Aspects of Dress’ reviewed in Fashion Theory
Being Prepared: Aspects of Dress and Dressing – review by Ian Gilligan in Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture Reviewed by Ian…
Jordie Albiston, ‘The Weekly Poem’ reviewed by English Teachers Association NSW
Jordie Albiston's The Weekly Poem: 52 exercises in closed & open forms – review by RR in Reviews Issue 3 2016 (PDF) on the English Teachers…
Paul Cliff, ‘A Constellation of Abnormalities’ reviewed in Sydney Review of Books
Canberra, Schooled – review by Geoff page in Sydney Review of Books Paul Cliff moved to Canberra in 1997. The Impatient World, published in 2002,…
Martin Langford et. al, ‘Contemporary Australian Poetry’ in ABR
Unruly energies: Two general surveys of Australian poetry – Review by John Hawke in the Australian Book Review, March 2017 According to The Magic Pudding,…