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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Poetry is one of the pre-eminent poetry magazines in the Anglosphere. The Chicago-based magazine was founded in 1912 and in 2003 ...

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 ...

It’s a clear blue day when poet Zohab Khan arrives at the Young Post offices in Causeway Bay. At 198cm tall, the Australian cuts a striking figure. We waste no time in putting his freestyling ...