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A block sculpture on university grounds. Two sides can be seen. One side says 'Mememto Mori" with a photo of a young woman. The other side reads 'The Living Poetry Project.'
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Living Poetry Project – poetry as a tool for emotional healing among Gen Z

How is poetry helping young Australians address modern love and trauma?

Winners of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards: 024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. From left, back row: Ryan Cropp, Andre Dao, Cecelia Edwards, Penny Smith and Amy Crutchfield. From left, front row: Leah Leaman, Daniel Browning, Will Kostakis and Gregory Crocetti. Five people are standing, another four sit in front of them, in the forecourt of Parliament House, Canberra.
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Failure and frustration spawn success for Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners

Six books including a debut novel and a debut poetry collection have each received $80,000 in this year’s Prime Minister’s…

A hand is painting the word 'Poetry' in back on the wall of bright, colourful graffiti.
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Accidental poetry should be all around us

Imagine stumbling into poems in unexpected places as you go about your day.

Two panels. On the left is a profile photo of Isabella G Mead. She has brown hair and is wearing a blue patterned top. On the right is the cover of her book, with 'The Infant Vine' in white font against a picture of a brownish plant.
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Book review: The Infant Vine, Isabella G Mead

This debut collection of poetry plays with the intersection between motherhood and the natural world.

A hand cradling a small globe. Poetry Month
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Poetry Month 2024 goes international

This year, Poetry Month expands its remit to reach an overseas audience in a collaboration with a UK poetry and…

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

Image is an older white woman with shoulder length hair and grey at the temples. She wears a pearl necklace and a V white scoop neck top with a grey leaf pattern on it and is looking off to the right. The portrait, among two other works of Gina Rinehart, are reproduced in Vincent Namatjira's monograph. Image: Supplied, courtesy Thames & Hudson.
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Gina Rinehart's own creativity revisited as she attacks Namatjira's portrait

Do you remember Gina Rinehart's poem 'Our Future'? Here it is, for those who missed it when it first came…

Venus Without Furs. On the left a shot of the author, who is a middle aged white woman with short brushed back grey hair. She has glasses on her head, a green and black dress and is standing in front of a microphone reading from a book. On the right is a book cover showing an artistic nude looking to the right and her mirror double looking to the left.
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Book review: Venus Without Furs, Gabrielle Everall

A collection of poetry that riffs and talks back to Leopold von Sascher-Masoch, author of notorious classic 'Venus in Furs'.

Poetry. Image is a sheet of paper with some lines written across it and a fountain pen with the lid off.
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Is poetry really 'the tyrannical discipline'?

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

Raw Salt. Image is a young woman with long dark wavy hair on the left standing in front of external foliage, body turned slight to her right, wearing black polo neck jumper under black and white patterned sleeveless dress. She has dark red lipstick and a slight smile. On the right is a book cover of close-up of a public phone push button pad, above the book's title in a grey stripe at the bottom.
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Book review: Raw Salt, Izzy Roberts-Orr

This debut poetry collection canvasses death and the environment, mourning and memory.

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