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Features

Slam poets prepare for the 2025 Bread & Butter Poetry Slampionship at Sydney Opera House

A regular slam poetry night is moving to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to decide the 2025 Bread…

Nanci Nott's 5 best books of 2025.
Features

My 5 best books of 2025, from poetry to politics

For this ArtsHub reviewer, the best books of the year ran from compelling fiction and poetry to a dictionary of…

Judith Nangala Crispin, the author and poet behind The Dingo's Noctuary. Photo: Supplied.
Interviews

The Dingo’s Noctuary: Judith Nangala Crispin's ArtsHub interview  

Judith Nangala Crispin's latest book contains life, death and everything in between. She talks to ArtsHub.

ANAM students performing at Abbotsford Convent. The atmospheric photograph, taken in a historic venue with picturesque windows and a stage visible in the background, shows a seated audience listening to a group of six musicians, including strings, woodwind and a piano; one of the students stands behind a computer screen, suggesting the presence of electronics in the score being performed.
Features

Ghosts of Abbotsford Convent exorcised by poetic and musical collaboration

Poet Nam Le and former ANAM resident artist, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, join ANAM students to explore the Convent’s ‘fraught history’.

The Blak Infinite. Image is artwork of cartoon like spaceships with people falling out of them.
Features

Thinking about aliens – The Blak Infinite envelops Fed Square this RISING

Behind the spaceships and bright lights in this RISING program of free events and installations lies a deeper story.

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Features

Is poetry really 'the tyrannical discipline'?

This is how Sylvia Plath described the art form, but three contemporary poets have very different views.

A poetry slam at Sonic Poetry Festival with Lane Milburn, Hayley Ricketson and Jason Voss. Photo: Brendan Bonsack.
Features

Spoken word poetry: screaming their truths

To acknowledge and celebrate World Poetry Day, ArtsHub explores some grassroots spoken word festivals and speaks to their participants.

Gunasekera. Production still from ‘You're So Brave’. Photo: Rama Dolman. The image shows a female figure holding a microphone in the centre against a stage with red light and two projector panels on each side.
Features

Patrick Gunasekera and Georgi Ivers: two artists and their journeys in crip time

Care can come in the form of time, patience, flexibility and community engagement in a world that still poses so…

Features

Iconoclastic and empowered: the new wave of Middle Eastern Australian women writers

MENA women writers are gaining momentum in major literary prizes and across the nation’s bookstores, but is this movement iconoclastic?

Teal coloured promotional sign with word MÌNH in bold capital letters, in front of trees.
Features

Complicating Vietnamese diaspora stories for the better

A look into how the ‘MÌNH’ exhibition challenges notions of a monolithic Vietnamese identity through art and writing.

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