AustLit

'Although Robert Wood’s History and the Poet is described as essay, it defies being labelled as one genre. Perhaps like the definition of poetry itself, which shifts and changes between individuals and contexts, language and culture, so do Wood’s words. With sincerity and curiosity, Wood invites the reader into a personal journey, asking us at the start: What is Australia? What is poetry? and What is poetry in Australia? In search of answers, what follows is heartfelt discourse; meditations, manifestoes, letters, mythical stories and, at times, academic hyperbole that is steeped in the author’s philosophical, poetic and political relationship with the natural world and its languages.'  (Introduction)

Poetry by inmates of Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre, workshopped in July and August 2016.

A second anthology of poetry from inmates at the South Coast Correctional Centre, Nowra.

Poetry by inmates of the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre in Kempsey.

The third anthology from inmates at Dillwynia Correctional Centre.

'The South Coast Correctional Centre is located near Nowra, a little more than two hours south of Sydney.The centre houses uup to 600 inmates, mostly men. In early October 2012 The Red Room Company's Artistic Director Johanna Featherstone headed to Nowra with poets Lionel Fogarty and Nick Bryant-Smith to run intensive poetry workshops over three days. Like other 2012 Unlocked projects, The South Coast Correctional Centre workshops focused on Indigenous inmates, in response to the deeply troubling over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prisons.' (Source: Redroom Company website)

Poems by inmates at Balund-a Diversionary Program, Tabulam, New South Wales.

Poems by inmates at the Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre.

Poems by Indigenous inmates at Dillwynia Correctional Centre.

Poems written by inmates from Mannus Correctional Centre, a minimum-security institution for male offenders south-east of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

Poems written by inmates from Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre (a minimum-securite correctional centre for male offenders, outside Sydney).