Poetry

Book review: The Wild Reciter, Peter Kirkpatrick
The shifting historical commingling of poetry and popular culture.

Book review: mark the dawn, Jazz Money
Jazz Money's second poetry collection is a lyrical and fierce reckoning of contemporary life.

Book review: Orbital, Samatha Harvey
This year's Booker Prize-winner has garnered a lot of praise, but does it actually deserve it?

Greek-Australian poet Î .O. wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award
A champion of performance poetry and spoken word as well as his fellow poets, Î .O. has been honoured for his…

Living Poetry Project – poetry as a tool for emotional healing among Gen Z
How is poetry helping young Australians address modern love and trauma?

Accidental poetry should be all around us
Imagine stumbling into poems in unexpected places as you go about your day.

Book review: The Infant Vine, Isabella G Mead
This debut collection of poetry plays with the intersection between motherhood and the natural world.

Exhibition review: Anugerah: (Bestowed), HAIR ARI
Indonesian-born artist Addin Sugarda considers rituals of connection and cultural longing in her exhibition.

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…

Is poetry really 'the tyrannical discipline'?
This is how Sylvia Plath described the art form, but three contemporary poets have very different views.