This book is the first Australian poetry slam how to guide, from Australian Poetry Slam founder Miles Merrill and award winning teacher Narcisa Nozica.
With tips from stars of the Australian poetry slam scene – including Maxine Beneba Clarke, …
The event is featuring slam veteran and co-founder of Enough Said Poetry Slam in Wollongong Lorin Elizabeth, as well as local writer and regular attendee,Annette Arany.
Poetry slam host Elliot York Cameron founded the event last July …
Hot off the press from the University of Western Australia Publishing comes this wonderful book, THE SHORT STORY OF YOU AND I, the latest by Richard James Allen .
Allen is an Australian born poet whose writing has appeared …
Word Travels’ STORY FEST is Australia’s largest performing writers festival! The Guide had the chance to speak with guest artist Singaporean poet Deborah Emmanuel who gave a fascinating insight into her creative process.
Deborah’s poetry career began after being…
BRIGHT STAR by John Bell and Simon Tedeschi
presented in association with Music Viva Australia will play at Riverside Theatres in November, for one night only. It will be a feast of Romantic poetry and music featuring the works of …
LONNIE’S LAMENT, the latest collection of poems by Ken Bolton, was recently published by Wakefield Press. Bolton has been a major figure in the Australian poetry and experimental writing scene for decades. Whilst he says that he writes ‘to keep …
Sydney’s premier poetry night, “Word In Hand”, is set to host one of the greatest voices of our time on April 4th with the Windham-Campbell prize winning, Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, Ali Cobby Eckermann.
As an award winning writer and …
Have you ever considered the fate of the humble childhood toy “Jack in the box” ?
Well, Rosemary Dobson has:
“He crouches low and supplicant/His elbows knocking on the wood…/He waits the tapping at the locks/He hears …
The first time I ever heard chamber music was in a medieval church lit by candlelight in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It was atmospheric and the acoustics were superb. Cut to Drummoyne and the challenging contemporary chamber music benefited from the warm …
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate; it goes on to become.” W.H. Auden
Each art has a language of its own that can ’speak’ to us. Poetry can resonant within …