It was the French historian Pierre Nora who coined the term lieux de mémoire – “sites of memory”. He meant to suggest that ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

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 ...

Cypriot-Australian poet Koraly Dimitriadis will launch her fourth poetry collection, That’s What They Do, in Melbourne in early February, continuing her exploration of power, abuse and marginalisation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps more than any Australian poet of the 20th Century, John Tranter, who died last Friday at the age of 79, was guided by a relentless desire to experiment. His earliest admiration was for 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, ...