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The following arrived in my inbox this afternoon. Few greater poets, nor few greater causes, could I imagine for this sun-kissed, rain-dre...

"Dedication (for Clare)" This is a simple sonnet for you, Clare, since I have the time to write, and presume you h...

It has just come to my attention that the bookshop that more than any other has kept poetry alive in this country in recent years ...

Alison Croggon makes an oft-repeated yet nonetheless interesting point in her editorial for Cordite magazine's addendum ...

kitchen poetry I run the knife under hot water, wrap it in a patterned tea-towel &place it in the drawer. Beside the kett...

Autumn Serenade I was heading home, hot and tired but having gotten a lot done, I was not too displeased. I had even managed to sketch t...

  Lately I’ve been crossing myself at odd moments. There was a time I would only do this in church and its ritual meaning was no...

The August winds have finally died, leaving me sitting on my frozen hands and with a soft ringing in my ears like all my ghosts com...

On Saturday 4 September at 1pm join Judith Beveridge, acclaimed poet, academic and poetry editor of Meanjin , in conversation with the win...

   For those precious few of you outside the ever-burgeoning Anglosphere, in June of this year the elected Prime Minister of Australia,...

Winter Breathing 1 Knowing well the wakening moments, morning forming in front of my eyes, like some summer evening after a h...

'ELEMENTS' 1995: Mr. Smith – middle- aged, eccentric, lived at home with Hamlet ’s evil queen – unleashed a beast: rec...

Magnapinna species The elbowed thing drifts and darts, drifts and darts, trailing a metres-long train of tendrils —Rapunzel a...

Radiohead's guitarist and creative powerhouse, Jonny Greenwood (with all due deference to the genius of fellow band member Thom Yorke), ...

Saturdays 5 & 12 June PLAN TO BE PUBLISHED with Les Wicks at the NSW Writers’ Centre, Rozelle 10am – 4pm One of the best known poe...