Goldfields poet Vic Dale has captured the life of Australians in his second book, Talking to an Aussie, set to be launched tonight. Eight years on from the release of his first book, The Aussie Inside ...

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Luckily, in Jamie Grant’s ninth collection, Glass on the Chimney (Hardie Grant, 142pp, $24.95), there are quite a few rallies where the serves are accurate and the net play convincing. There is also a ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jennifer Compton is a Melbourne-based poet and playwright. Her poem Physics, which appears in the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Les Murray says in his introductory remarks that most Australian poets live in Victoria. He also comments that "education and politics, ...

Set mainly in the WA wheat belt, and often some decades back, Kinsella’s anti-pastoral poems fill an important gap in Australian poetry. Like many poets of pastoral origins or concerns, Kinsella is ...

Dalton, who reported on the devastating aftermath of the blazes, is contributing to a book about the national disaster; and its creators are also calling for poems from young Aussies on how they ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Confidential. Followed categories will be added to My News. In an incredibly moving tribute to Australia, the Neighbours actor and former St Joseph’s College ...

Australian actor Ben Lawson has gone viral after posting a six-minute poem that encapsulates the feeling that so many Aussies are currently experiences as bushfires continue to ravage the nation. The ...