Poetry & Spoken Word
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Celebrating local stories through place-based programming
Running from 1-4 June 2023, the NT Writers Festival offers the perfect reason for a mid-winter getaway to Alice Springs.
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Small presses shine in Stella shortlist
Six ‘culture shifting’ books have been shortlisted for the $60,000 Stella Prize, which recognises the best books by Australian women.
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Shepparton Festival’s new direction raises the culture stakes
As one of Australia’s major regional arts festivals, Shepparton Festival is building on its multicultural heritage and demographical changes to…
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Book review: Dress Rehearsals, Madison Godfrey
An electric and poetic manifesto of selfhood.
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Book review: In Bed with Animals, Bronwyn Lovell
Lived experience of gender discrimination in poetic form.
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Book review: The Exclusion Zone, Shastra Deo
Deo twists the boundaries of form and content in her second collection of poetry.
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Industry responses to Australia’s Poet Laureate position
The National Cultural Policy heralds a Poet Laureate posting. What do the poets think?
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New regional festival celebrates queer writers
With events across Victoria in centres such as Shepparton, Traralgon, Warrnambool and Geelong, Q-Lit aims to connect the queer community…
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Vale Robert Adamson, poet of the Hawkesbury River
Adamson was widely feted in his five-decade career as a poet, publisher and editor.
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Winners of 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards announced
Writers across six categories took home $80,000 each, with a focus on stories of war.