Little attention has been paid to the women in the Australian bard’s short life.
Dropbear author Evelyn Araluen welcomes the momentum driving First Nations publishing but warns against recognition that’s shallow and tokenistic.
Until 1975 “no respectable poet would read in a pub”. A new documentary looks back over 50 years of anarchism,open mics,and community.
Rather than treating poetry as optional added extra at school,it should be central to the subject of English.
On June 24,1870,the British-Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon died in Melbourne. Gordon was also a police officer,politician,and a well regarded horseman. He was the first Australian poet to gain significant recognition abroad,and he is immortalised with a bust in Poets’ Corner,in London’s Westminster Abbey.
Two new collections have parenting at their core,along with questions of what we leave for future generations.
It’s the first time poetry has been eligible for the prestigious Stella Prize,established in 2013 to champion women’s writing.
Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland shares a hopeful vision for our country in his poem Tomorrow Australia. Video:Justin McManus
Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland is a singer,songwriter,author,poet and filmmaker. Richard pays tribute to the Country of his people;the Gunditjmara of South Western Victoria. Video:Justin McManus.
The Italian poet’s most famous work,The Divine Comedy,has influenced countless artists and continues to inspire.
Some poems are written in prose,some in more experimental forms,but crucially they are all linked by a sense of play,of barbed wit:Araluen is funny.