Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here the writer, comedian and Bedroom Philosopher reflects on his childhood Australian Poetry Month: 10 essential ...

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, singer-songwriter Kelly reflects on his collaboration with poet Dana Gioia When I first started listening to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jennifer Compton is a Melbourne-based poet and playwright. Her poem Physics, which appears in the ...

It’s Poetry Month, which prompts me to wonder: what is the face of Australian poetry today? Could it be literary darling Nam Le, whose debut poetry book, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, is being ...

This book is a masterpiece, and it is made out of someone else’s set of masterpieces. It is the translation by the octogenarian Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann of a group of poems by Rilke, by common ...

Judith Wright is a giant of Australian letters. Though most famous as a poet, she was also a very fine writer in prose, and it is this dimension of her writing that is brought to life in a new ...

and all that will outlast us. And this now outlasts him: a parting gift of poems. And how were they found? In the most remarkable circumstances by those who loved him. Murray’s great friend, Jamie ...

Here, world-class male writers, actors, directors and thinkers write candidly about the poems that bring them to tears. From the literary world, there are selections by Salman Rushdie, Clive James, ...