As literary editor Caroline Overington reported in this masthead, poet Sarah Holland-Batt, a frontrunner for the position, has suggested a stipend of $100,000 a year. A hundred grand? My hat, as ...

On the way to bury his mother in 1951, Les Murray saw an old Aboriginal man standing by the road with his eyes down and hat off. "I was 12 then," the poet would recall, "but that man has stayed ...

Give us a National Poetry Day where we can all pause for a moment with our distinctive Australian voice in its highest art form; flood our schools with Kenneth Slessor, Dorothy Porter, John ...

For the first time, the Australian government will sponsor a poet to represent the country, but the details of how they will be selected remain a mystery. Skip to main content. ABC News.

Australian poet Les Murray — known as "The Bard of Bunyah" — dies peacefully at a nursing home at Taree on the New South Wales north coast after his health deteriorated.