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The Broad Bean Sermon, while not his best-known poem, shows why Les Murray is considered by some to be Australia’s preeminent poet.
For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.
Young poets are performing at poetry slams, pop-up events and salons around Australia – and publishing, too. Who are they – and why is poetry so popular?
Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
For Willem Dafoe’s Ed, being part of an artistic coterie after decades as a forgotten poet is like the pleasurable twitch of a phantom limb.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
Francis Webb was the first Australian poet to openly discuss mental health crises and the stigmatisation of mental patients.
A country defined by verdancy and mildness is neither of those things as climate change makes England hotter.
David Malouf declared John Forbes ‘the most elegant and inventive poet’ of his
generation.
Five Bells is an elegy for Kenneth Slessor’s friend Joe Lynch, an artist who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927 after falling from a ferry.
Oodgeroo’s debut collection We Are Going was the first ever book of poetry published by an Aboriginal person.
When the Odyssey first began to circulate in ancient Greece, no one knew its author. So how did ‘Homer’ become the name on the book’s cover?
Sharon Kernot knows how to make a pressing, potent, aching song from a stanza of free verse lines – and how to make a page of poetry talk its way into your head.
Is Christopher Nolan’s adaptation a definitive film version of Homer’s Odyssey? No, it isn’t. In fact, it can’t be.
Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.
Mary Leapor worked as a servant at Edgcote House and documented the goings on below stairs in her poetry.
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment, Curtin University
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Honorary Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor in Australian Literature and Writing, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Lecturer, North Carolina State University
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Professor of English Literature, Aberystwyth University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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PhD candidate, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer In Creative Writing, University of Roehampton
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