Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here the writer, comedian and Bedroom Philosopher reflects on his childhood Australian Poetry Month: 10 essential ...

Goldfields poet Vic Dale has captured the life of Australians in his second book, Talking to an Aussie, set to be launched tonight. Eight years on from the release of his first book, The Aussie Inside ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. In our new series, we explore influential Australian poems. We can sometimes ...

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Lang Leav reflects on tense trips to Cronulla beach in the 90s In the summer of ’97, when day after day, the ...

In our new series, we explore influential Australian poems. Sydney Harbour is one of the most recognisable places in Australia. Today, it usually enters the imagination as spectacle: bridge, Opera ...

Beautifully designed in high-quality hardback, complete with line drawings by Bridget Farmer, it seems the ideal book for aunts to bestow on nephews and nieces who display literary promise. This ...

This Poetry Analysis Workshop for close reading using Australian Poet Banjo Patterson’s ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’ helps students learn to dig deep in poetry analysis. This great Australian poem is fun ...

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 ...

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 ...

Allen's work, however, has an ease and an impact not always found among her often highly metaphorical colleagues. She finds her poetry in "ordinary" places but it is usually captured from an unusual ...