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Sep 7, 2024

Book Launch: Bright Crockery Days

Dixson Room, NSW State Library: 3pm, September 28 Join us for this gala event to pay homage, in poetry and conversation, to the life and...

Sep 4, 2024

There are poets whose work, when we first encounter it, changes our conception of what poetry can be and do. Wistawa Szymborska was one...

Jul 31, 2024

Congratulations to Richard Perin, the winner of our "Rimas Dissolutas" competition. Richard's tender and affecting short poem manages...

Selection of manuscripts from our call for submissions now complete: eight fine new poets added to our 2025 list

Managing Editor Mark Tredinnick amongst the winners in the Newcastle Prize

Congratulations to Richard Perin, the winner of our "Rimas Dissolutas" competition. Richard's tender and affecting short poem manages...