Good, if belatedly, to come across a generous and thoughtful reading on the praiseworthy Canberra-based literary blogsite, Whispering Gums of a couple of poetry collections published over the past twelve months, …
Five Islands Press has announced the Judges’ shortlist for the 2024–25 Prize. Bathypelagia —Debbie Lim, Cordite Publishing Inc. Portraits of Drowning — Madeleine Dale, University of Queensland Press The Infant …
TheDearFour-launch-invitation An invitation to attend the launch by Robert Dessaix of the poetry collection ‘The Dear Four’, featuring new poems by Mary Blackwood, Christiane Conésa-Bostock, Karen Knight and Liz …
Join family & friends to commemorate the talented Australian writer, editor, teacher, wine critic & academic Moya Costello. Come to a relaxed gathering at the Port Sorell Surf Life Saving Club by the …
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde has penned a laudatory review of Vanessa Proctor’s Dec 2024 poetry collection On Wonder, at Grattan Street Press (29th September, 2025). The Japanese perception of sadness, particularly …
The 2025 Tasmanian Poetry Festival kicked off Friday evening, October 10, 2025, at Sporties Bar in Launceston. Young Dawkins reflected on serving as one of three judges for the 2025 Tim Thorne Poetry Prize. American-born …
Have read, then partially listened to, an interview (dated 30th may 2025) in the New York Times recently with Kathryn Schulz, a staff writer with The New Yorker and a …
2.30 – 3.45pm, Sunday 5 October Tasmanian Poetry Festival Feature Reading in Hobart The Tasmanian Poetry Festival presents a special Hobart feature reading by award-winning poets: Erin Coull Susan Austin …
DIY Publishing Toolkit is a project of the Community Publishing in Regional Australia Research Group. The group puts out a Community Publishing Newsletter, and online effort – the most recent, …
Vanessa Page hails from Toowoomba but feels most at peace in the outback. A seventh‑generation Australian with First Fleet ancestry, she fell in love with books while spending lonely holidays with her …
(By Walter Marsh, ‘The Guardian’) As cultural institutions respond to political statements on the war, many artists say they face a choice between career opportunities and standing up for their …
UK blogger Martyn Crucefix discusses his experiments with AI poem creation in his blog post ‘Can AI Write an Original ‘Poem’ By ‘Me’?’ On a personal note, I too (like …
(from Andrew Blackman’s blog, 7th May 2025) ‘When I mention RSS these days, I often get either a complete lack of recognition or a kind of amused astonishment, as if …
A positive review on Gregory Piko’s blog of Vanessa Proctor’s recent collection…. Vanessa’s words know exactly how to fit together and how much to say. Nothing is forced, nothing is …
Henry Sheerwater (1984–2025) grew up in Sydney and gained a BA (English) at the University of New South Wales. He lived in Tasmania for many years, writing poetry and essays …
(from ‘rob mclennan’s blog’, 17 April 2025) 5 – Are public readings part of or counter to your creative process? Are you the sort of writer who enjoys doing readings? …
(from a post on Kristy Bowen’s blog Dulcetly | notes on a bookish life – 03 March 2025)) I was moving some books around on my shelf and realized I …
(Cordite Poetry Review, 4th February 2025) Kate Lilley: … One of the things you said when we were having a bit of back and forth about how we might do …
Terms & Conditions This is an annual prize for a first already-published book-length collection of poetry by an Australian poet or a poet living and writing in Australia. The author …
Lovely to learn of the launch in Paris last week of Adrienne Eberhard’s new collection of poems, ‘Marie & Marie’, on Saturday 5th April. Thirteen years in the making, Adrienne’s …
Enjoyed a thoughtful interview with Wurundjeri poet Alison J Barton recently, aired on 3CR’s Spoken Word program (08 August 2024)…. Indrani Perera spoke to Alison about her collection, ‘Not Telling’, …
US author Ron Riekki’s writing takes the measure of topics some might prefer not be discussed – protest, authoritarianism, immigration – as well as issues of which there’s too little …
Sorry to learn of the loss of English poet David Bircumshaw recently. Had thought I might get to catch up with him on a visit to England mid last year, …
In one of your poems you write about the spring that will come. On our geographical latitudes, where for a long time the winter covers the world in darkness and …
Everyone’s talking about AI, but it’s not there yet …
‘Something about Beethoven’
(By Bec Kavanagh … ‘The Guardian’, Friday 21st March 2025) The Richell prize-winner’s novel, set in a near-future lutruwita/Tasmania, asks what does it mean to have hope in the face …
Australian Poetry has announced the three judges for the Anne Elder Award 2024 panel. They are Jeanine Leane, Theodore Ell, and Ella Skibeck-Porter. Theodore was the 2022 Anne Elder Award co-winner with …
There’s a thoughtful interview on the New York Times web site … ‘The Interview’ Feb 15, 2025, Lulu Garcia-Navarro in conversation with Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona … Senator Gallego: …
(Tim winton, ‘The Guardian’, 22nd Feb 2025) Having acknowledged our extinction crisis and the climate emergency, Anthony Albanese promised to introduce more effective nature laws. His government hasn’t delivered on …
KEY DATES FOR THE 2024 AWARD, for first books published during 2024. Open call for entries – Monday, 27 January 2025. Close of entries – Monday, 17 March 2025, 5pm …
Tasmanian author Eleanor Vaughan, has released her fifth book, Eirenikon: Dictionary of a Reimagined Culture, under the name Annie March. A fledgling glossary exploring the whole, healed, holy, ecozoic culture …
Gina Mercer, Hobart | 24th November 2024: So, here is a book. It’s Helen’s book. It’s a very good book. Filled with – and ‘about the goodness of people’. You, …
The judges have selected longlists in the four book categories: Premier’s Prize for Fiction Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction Minister for the Art’s Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children …
Sorry to learn of Judith Mok’s death last month. From The Hot Press Newsdesk – 28th November 2024 “Judith was a remarkable woman, a force of life, a powerhouse, with …
undercurrents by Jane Williams’, Ginninderra Press 2023, was launched by Adrienne Eberhard at The Hobart Bookshop on Thursday 29 June 2023. Thank you for joining us tonight for the launch …
Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction with his book ‘Question 7’. “This book is about my father and my mother,” he says, “their love for each …
More than 90 Australian authors including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package. Writers including Tim Winton, Charlotte Wood, …
Maybe of interest? New (free) downloadable pdf anthology of poems entitled ‘Class’ (Meuse Press, NSW Australia, edited by Les Wicks) featuring 74 contributors (45 Australiana along with international contributors published …
Valerie Tinmouth and the 2024 Launceston Poetry Cup winning poem
Melrose, Shaine — poetry collection ‘The Natural World Somersaults’. Launch, Adelaide, October 30th 2024
Eliza Dune Daiza — poetry collection ‘Haibun Nation & Other States’, launch 6th November 2024.
song by CDK — Gotye’s ‘Somebody that I used to know’, at CDK – Gotye’s ‘Somebody that I used to know’
Back in 2017, the Youtube video of a song — ‘Mey’ — performed by Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa Azimitabar, (Kurdish asylum seekers held in detention on Manus Island, Papua New …
Lovely to see Elanna Herbert’s 2023 poetry collection ‘sifting fire writing coast’ has been shortlisted in the ACT Literary Awards, along with Sandra Renew’s ‘Apostles of Anarchy’, K. A. Nelson’s …
Tina Brown, ‘The Guardian’ 11th June 2024 He was cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny. Martin’s most seductive appeal was in his voice. Off the page, a rich, iconoclastic croak. On …
Walleah Press welcomes unpublished poetry manuscripts by Australian residents, for publication early in 2025. Submission details. Closing date | 30th June 2024.
(from an interview with Glyn F. Edwards, published in the Welsh journal Modron Magazine (Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis), April 14th 2024. Q4. Sexuality and ecology are central …
(song) Adrianne Lenker, Sadness as a Gift (2024)
Thursday 21st March 2023 — 18:00 to 20:00 UTAS Inveresk Library celebrates Tasmanian Reads Week with ‘The Place that Made Us: Martin Flanagan in conversation with Cameron Hindrum’. Martin Flanagan …
Caitlin Cassidy, The Guardian, 10th March 2024 “We’ve set up a crazy system where publishers own and control knowledge and we’ve let them do that,” Foley says. “Researchers give content …
A throw-away line from her novel, ‘The Peppered Moth’ | ‘Bessie is a widow now, and she and Chrissie are … pretending to watch BBC nine o’clock news. (Bessie refuses, …
(Kelly Burke, The Guardian, 6th March 2024) Omar Sakr, Jinghua Qian and Alison Evans have been left to speculate on whether cancellations relate to their pro-Palestinian stances. State Library Victoria …
Winners of the 2023 Troubadour International Poetry Prize (1st Prize 2000 pounds, 2nd 1000 pounds, 3rd 500 pounds) have been announced. And of the three prizewinners and 19 commended, four …
KEY DATES FOR THE 2023 AWARD, for first books published during 2023. Open call for entries – Monday, 15 January 2024 Close of entries – Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 5pm …
A discussion group that includes Australian writers, teachers and academics is campaigning to get an editor and academic sacked and funding withdrawn, in response to a literary journal’s publication of …
Seasonal Poets returns to Hobart on Monday 26th February for the Summer Reading with poets Pamela Leach, Irene McGuire and Peter Jerrim. Seasonal Poets’ new venue is Fullers Bookshop 131 …
The TPF 2024 kicks off its first pre-festival event with a book launch by Koraly Dimitriadis – a Melbourne poet, performance artist, film maker and short story writer. Join us …
Huge congrats to Grace Yee (and Giramondo) whose debut collection Chinese Fish, published by Giramondo, was this evening awarded both the Victorian Premier’s Award for Literature, and the Victorian Premier’s …
‘Into The Blue’ … Recorded at Celtic Connections 2009, Glasgow,Scotland. Kris Drever, John McCusker and Roddy Woomble . Harmony vocals – Heidi Talbot
The Hollywood Inn, Co. Wicklow: “Scottish Hebrides singer Julie Fowlis & Kerry singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh singing ‘Dá bhFaighfinn Mo Rogha de Thriúr Acu’ (0:00), Dhannsamaid Le Ailean (1:24) & …
Carol Patterson third collection of stories (22), Vanishing Point will be launched by the Hobart Bookshop at Irish Murphy’s, Salamanca, Thursday 8 February, 5.30pm. The band Sanctuary will accompany the …
Hobart launch of under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, at 5:30pm at Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart on their 104th birthday. The haiku readings by Watermeet haiku …
(from Liquid Amber’s newsletter | 19th January 2024) Publications for 2024 – and beyond What an amazing round of submissions we had for the Liquid Amber Publication Call! Thank you …
2024 is bringing changes to Seasonal Poets. Seasonal Poets will be partnering with Fullers Bookshop for each of its Seasons. The format will continue as it has always been, with …
Author Simon Grove, illustrator Keith Davis and Dr Sally Bryant AM joined in conversation to mark the launch of Simon’s new book ‘Seasons in the South’, at Fullers Bookshop in …
The Booranga Writers’ Centre has been unsuccessful in it’s bid for annual funding from Create NSW under Chris Minn’s Labor government. This came as a real shock to the Booranga …
Lucky. You have been so lucky with the chemo. Hardly any side effects until now. But this week, there’s not just the muscle-pain to deal with, the nausea has also …
The Bruny Island Bird Festival: Bringing together Science, Conservation, Community and Creativity to create three days of enjoyment and education about the birdlife of this wonderful island. Packed with new …
Thoughtful responses from poet Andy Jackson, interviewed by Rob from Advocacy for Inclusion (28th Nov 2023), online at Buzzsprout. Rob, discussing Andy’s poetry collection Human Looking The poem that really …
… the Aran jumper crowd (Pat Carty, ‘The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2023) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shane-macgowan-the-man-who-made-irish-music-cool-gj0fvk505 (apologies, it’s probably behind a firewall) Rum Sodomy & the Lash made it into the UK …
Metric — ‘Formentera’, from their 2022 album ‘Formentera’. Live at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, 2022.
2 paragraphs from Doris Lessing’s ‘Under My Skin’ (vol one, autobiography to 1949) Something else happened, which I have had to think about ever since. At a Mission in Old …
Liz Lefroy and Jonty Watt – Launceston, November 16th 2023. Visiting UK poet Liz Lefroy Liz’s opening poems of the evening involved “that very British sport of queuing,” the …
A Bothwell storytelling event featuring Kim Nielsen-Creeley, Marilyn Arnold, Tim Hurburgh and Mallika Naguran. Friday 1 December at the BoHo (Bothwell Hotel) from 3-6 pm. Listen to stories and poems …
Winning poem — Upper Primary (Y4-Y6) with a poem, ‘The Whale’s Wings’, by Marley D Read poem at The Whale’s Wings
The musical genius of Julie Fowlis in Concert at ABC Glasgow January 2008 ‘Hùg air a Bhonnaid Mhor’ From North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Julie Fowlis is probably …
Oystercatcher Enterprises Ltd, a not-for-profit company recently founded by Mark Tredinnick and Steve Meyrick, is proud to announce its intention to revive Five Islands Press as a publisher of new …
News from Small Press Network’s latest newsletter… BOTY shortlist We recently announced the six books shortlisted for this year’s SPN Book of the Year Award (plus two titles that received …
The Pedlars Open Mic Poetry night is on the second Tuesday next month: the 14th November. The competition for November will be THE POETRY HANDICAP ! This means that the poets who have won …
Event by WA Poets Inc – Perth Poetry Festival ********* Perth Poetry Festival is continuing its accessibility commitment to those who are unable to attend events in-person OR who live regionally, …
5.30pm – 6.30pm, Thursday 10 August Fullers Poets in Conversation – Esther Ottaway and Susan Austin Venue: Afterword Café, Fullers Bookshop, cnr Collins and Victoria Streets How intelligent and seemingly …
Dear Friends of Seasonal Poets, Each of our featured poets, Pam Schindler, Therese Corfiatis and Susan Austin has provided a poem for you to ‘taste’ before the reading. As usual, …
Artist and poet Kim Nielsen-Creeley has begun a blog on her website, with her first post about her experience of this year’s Cygnet Folk Festival. The Cygnet Folk Festival 2023 mantra …
Charles Simic (May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn’t End.
I was reading The Guardian’s story today of how ‘Yeah Baby’ was forced out of the Sydney to Hobart yatch race after a collision with a sunfish. As crew member …
From left: Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris, and Charles Bernstein in the garden of the Kelly Writers House. Photo by Al Filreis. LISTEN TO THE SHOW Al Filreis gathered together Jerome …
A facebook post by Anthony Lawrence. Simple, eloquent…. Vale Robert Adamson 1942-2022 Poet, friend
‘What Feels Like Eterntiy‘, by Metric—from the album ‘Formentera’ (Jul 2022). (Tim Sendra’s album review at ALLMUSIC)
Sep 17, 2022 This SCAP writers on Zoom is introduced by Donna Campbell and Linda Jackson and features the writing of Rachel McJury, Katharine McFarlane, Jo Gilbert, David Stakes and …
A note from Indrani Perera’s newsletter ‘The Poet’s Express’, (November 2022 issue) exploring Eleanor Jackson’s creation, the Melbourne Poetry Map. Take a walking tour around the city of Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) courtesy …
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Reading David Marr’s publication of a few years ago, ‘Stories, Essays & Speeches’ … it surprises me at times the way that personal connections have a habit of arising unexpectedly. …