‘I tell people I’m a poet,they’re shocked it’s a viable job’:Jazz Money

‘I tell people I’m a poet,they’re shocked it’s a viable job’:Jazz Money

Jazz Money is one of the headliners for a month-long celebration of the best in Australian verse,as an official poet laureate looms on the horizon.

  • byLenny Ann Low

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How a father’s death led to his daughter’s Stella prize-winning poetry

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Power of poetry not lost on the powerful,except in Australia
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  • byBenjamin Law