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Surf Coast Shire Arts Development Team

‘Voices from Home’, A Community Storytelling Performance

Discover what Home means to the Surf Coast community through storytelling, poetry and spoken word. Join Megan J Riedl and…

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Performances & Gigs

Varuna, the National Writers\' House

EVENT: SUPERPOSITION Poetic Potentialities Twilight Gathering

Varuna is thrilled to partner with Superposition, a new festival on Dharug and Gundungurra land. For four days, Superposition opens…

Workshops

Varuna, the National Writers\\\' House

WORKSHOP: Our Commonwealth (Wink, Wink) with Luke Patterson

This workshop raids the living archive of stories, rituals, songs, sayings and everyday objects, asking what becomes possible when words…

Workshops

Varuna, the National Writers' House

WORKSHOP: Weaving Poetic Diamonds with Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Join Anne-Marie Te Whiu in a workshop of exchange and ideas-building as she shares her creative side-hustle and invites you…

Workshops

Varuna, the National Writers' House

WORKSHOP: Poetic Cartography with Jazz Money

Join Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money to consider your unique cartography, discover how poetry can reveal the world around us in…

Poetry Month 2026 international guest Jericho Brown (US). The photo shows a Black American man standing in a half-crouched position with tall grass growing behind him.
News

All the world’s a page: Poetry Month 2026 program revealed

Poetry Month 2026, presented by Red Room Poetry, is coming to a library, billboard, computer screen or Opera House near…

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How AI poetry betrays our desire for human connection

Think you can tell the difference between Emily Dickinson and AI poetry?

Johanna Bell, author of Department of the Vanishing. Image: Supplied.
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Department of the Vanishing review: Johanna Bell's lyrical novel is 'monumentally memorable'

Known for her children's picture books, Johanna Bell has stepped boldly into adult fiction with the remarkable Department of the…

Maria van Neerven, author of Two Tongues. Photo: Ben van Neerven.
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Two Tongues review: Maria van Neerven's poetry is a celebration of Indigenous women

Two Tongues, Maria van Neerven’s debut poetry collection, whispers, shouts and sings of past, present and future.

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