Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 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 ...

Luckily, in Jamie Grant’s ninth collection, Glass on the Chimney (Hardie Grant, 142pp, $24.95), there are quite a few rallies where the serves are accurate and the net play convincing. There is also a ...

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 ...

and all that will outlast us. And this now outlasts him: a parting gift of poems. And how were they found? In the most remarkable circumstances by those who loved him. Murray’s great friend, Jamie ...

"The Biplane Houses" is not the first book Les Murray has dedicated "To the glory of God." Yet the Australian poet rarely invokes God directly. Such a presence can be inferred only by the subtle ...

Les Murray says in his introductory remarks that most Australian poets live in Victoria. He also comments that "education and politics, above all, have gone far to muffle and reduce poetry and turn ...

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here the Yankunytjatjara poet reflects on the complex history of country Blood Stained Hills (present tense) And ...

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