Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges, droughts and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the 1890s, friendly acquaintances Henry Lawson and "Banjo" Paterson earned a penny a line for their staged verse combat in The ...

It’s not. In fact, it’s not even close. How can it be when the four editors completely omitted a genre of Australian verse that has enjoyed a great deal of popularity during this period? I read ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A new anthology, Australian Poetry since 1788, includes more than 170 poets. Its contents range from ...

John Kinsella publishes with UWAP. He receives royalties from the sale of his UWAP books. He is a Professor in the Humanities at Curtin University. I start with a disclaimer: I am a UWA Publishing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s Poetry Month, which prompts me to wonder: what is the face of Australian poetry today? Could it be literary darling Nam Le, whose ...

The inaugural Australian poet laureate will be appointed in 2025 as part of the federal Labor government’s new National Cultural Policy, Revive. The intention to create the official position was ...

Contemporary Australian poetry is such a rich field, and so unjustly neglected, I find it hard to narrow these recommendations down, so just think of this as an introductory sampler. Hopefully all the ...

August is Poetry Month. Guardian Australia has teamed up with Red Room Poetry to bring you a very special edition of our interactive Zoom book club, featuring Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Omar Sakr and ...

He is the Australian mining tycoon who opened a dinosaur theme park, vowed to build a replica Titanic, and spent three years as a maverick MP. But Clive Palmer, who retired from politics last year, is ...