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Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
Award-winning playwright Stephen House turned to poetry to capture glimpses of life. He writes verse until his composition ‘feels right’.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
We created a reading-machine that finds poetry hidden in plain sight in popular books. In doing so, we are exploring Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and reading in a digitised world.
A creative writing project in South Australian prisons shows those inside can be eloquent, expressive and reflective.
Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper were aunt and niece as well as lovers who published under a male pseudonym.
Holocaust poetry has been written for the last 90 years by people all over the world, in many different languages and by many different groups.
Clive James will be remembered for his dry wit, distinctive voice and his unlikely yet hugely appealing screen presence.
From art that centres the African-American experience to feminist retellings, the British Museum’s new exhibition explores culture’s enduring fascination with the legend of Troy
The WA based publisher has a strong commitment to Australian poetry, publishing both ‘big name’ writers and smaller voices.
His legacy connects a great swathe of modern popular culture.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story of the women and their contributions to American democracy.
Memorising poetry is a kind of long-term investment. To take a poem with us so we can truly know it, we must know it by heart.
The first serious scholarly account of the works of comedian John Clarke has just been published. Here, we consider the creative genius of his command of language.
Women have been there in their imaginations.
Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
Ryan O'Neill’s book reimagines a classic Australian short story. He retells The Drover’s Wife 99 times in various forms, including a poem, an Amazon review, and even as a Cosmo quiz.
Since 2011, Button Poetry has offered a large number of powerful poetic performances that reveal the plurality of individual stories in the United States.
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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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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Sydney