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 ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges, droughts ...

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.

The government’s new cultural policy is promising an Australian poet laureate in 2025. But what does that mean? Who will be Australia’s first poet laureate?

Tomorrow, a new book by the Adelaide-born performance poet and playwright Christopher Barnett will be launched in Melbourne. Titled when they came/ for you: elegies/ of resistance, it’s the ...