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Val Vallis Award Open for Entries
Arts Queensland has opened nominations for two poetry awards for unpublished work. Named after Queensland poet and former UQ lecturerVal Vallis, (pictured, at left) the Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry will be awarded for a poem, or suite of poems, ... |
07/05/2013 8:15:33 AM |
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Blake Prize for Poetry - Submissions Open
The 2013 Blake Poetry Prize is now accepting entries. Presented by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society, the $5,000 Prize is named for visionary artist and poet William Blake. The prize was established to give Australian poets new ... |
22/04/2013 8:07:23 AM |
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Newcastle Poetry Prize - Submissions Open
TheNewcastle Poetry Prizeis open for submissions until 7 June. Coordinated by theHunter Writers Centre, the prize is one of Australia's oldest and richest literary prizes, celebrating its 32nd year in 2013. Mark Tredinnick has won the prize twice, in 2007 ... |
09/04/2013 7:58:01 AM |
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New Prize for an Emerging Poet
A two-week stay in a castle in Ireland is just one of the goodies the winner of the inaugural Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Poetry Prize will receive. A two-week writing residency at Manning Clark House in Canberra and $1,000 in cash will round out the ... |
05/02/2013 8:57:47 AM |
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Charles Harpur Bicentennial
Charles Harpur 'was not literally our first native-born non-Aboriginal poet but he was certainly our first very significant one', says Professor Paul Eggert, calling the two-hundredth anniversary of Harpur's birth on 23 January, 1813 'Australia's first ... |
23/01/2013 8:55:41 AM |
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Honouring our Poetic Legacy?
Christopher Bantick questions how much Australians value their poets in anopinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. Lamenting the lack of a Westminster Abbey-style Poets' Corner in Australia, Bantick nevertheless rejects the notion that popular writers ... |
15/01/2013 9:48:24 AM |
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Grand Slam
CJ Bowerbird is the winner of this year'sAustralian Poetry Slam, achieving two perfect scores during the first and second rounds. Bowerbird won the chance to tour Beijing, Chengdu and Souzhou in China with Bookworm International Literary Festival, ... |
05/12/2012 9:06:29 AM |
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Following in the Footsteps of Judith Wright?
Poets have three days left to submit entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. The competition, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, is now open. The prize was established in 2007 to foster poetry by writers ... |
12/11/2012 10:40:43 AM |
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National Poetry Week 2012
It's National Poetry Week. See Australian Poetry's web site for details of events near you, such as 'cafe poet' readings, open poetry readings and performances at the Write Around the Murray festival in Albury. Follow @AusPoetry on Twitter for more. To ... |
03/09/2012 2:28:31 PM |
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A Big Weekend in Brisbane
The 2012Queensland Poetry Festival gets underway in Brisbane today for three days (24-26 August) of poetry and related events. This is the 16th annual festival and its theme is 'spoken in one strange word'. Held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary ... |
24/08/2012 8:26:38 AM |
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Plan a Date with Poetica
Poetica, the poetry program on ABCRadio National, has some upcoming treats you might want to mark on your calendar. On 4 August, Jennifer Harrison, Michael Sharkey and Philip Salom discuss 'How to Inhabit a Poem'. This was recorded live at an Australian ... |
26/07/2012 11:18:05 AM |
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From the Archives
The ABC has gone to great lengths to keep older broadcasts accessible - whether as podcasts, radio transcripts or television streaming via iView. For those who like to listen to poetry, as well as read it, Radio National's Poetica still has on file a ... |
23/07/2012 9:44:56 AM |
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Coffee Houses
Poets have been writing in cafes as long as cafes have been around, but now some poets are staying as long as six months. The Cafe Poet program, an initiative of AustralianPoetry, places poets in cafes as 'poets in residence'. The poet is given space to ... |
29/06/2012 9:12:30 AM |