Griffin Poetry Prize announced
The winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at a colourful Caribbean-themed awards in Toronto on 4 June. Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashberry...
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'Five Bells' up for saleThe copyright on one of Australia's best-known poems, Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor, is up for sale. Slessor's son, Paul, plans to use the proceeds from selling...
Poetry Centre Anzac festival
The recently established Australian Poetry Centre will host its inaugural National Festival in Castlemaine, Victoria, this Anzac Day weekend. Each year the festival will move to a regional town in a...
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Clark wins ABR poetry prizeRoss Clark has been announced as the winner of the fourth Australian Book Review (ABR) poetry prize his poem ‘Danger: Lantana.'ABR celebrates 300 issuesThe April issue...
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Blake Dawson business literature prize shortlistFour book have been shortlisted for the 2007 Blake Dawson prize for business literature. They are National Market, National Interest (Edna Carew, A&U), Indecent Disclosure:...
White award calms angry poet
Poet David Rowbotham has been named as the recipient of this year's Patrick White award.The award, worth $25,000, was established by Patrick White in 1974 to honour writers who ‘had...
Les Murray in the running for a Nobel?
The recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced later this week, and while there isn't a formal shortlist Australian poet Les Murray is widely tipped as...
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OUP acquires Beazer PublishingOxford University Press (OUP) has acquired Beazer Publishing. Beazer, founded in 1994 by Margaret Beazer, specialises in texts for Legal Studies and commerce subjects in Years 11...
Griffin Poetry Prize announced
The winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on 6 June. Scar Tissue by US author Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)...
Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist of titles in the running for the CAN$100,000 (A$101,000) Griffin Poetry Prize were announced yesterday. Finalists in the Canadian shortlist were: Airstream Land Yacht (Ken Babstock, House of...
A new poetry press
Anthologist John Leonard (who edited Seven Centuries of Poetry in English; Australian Verse, an Oxford Anthology; New Music; and Contemporary Australian Poetry) has announced the establishment of the John Leonard...
Poets’ stoush hits the headlines
It's not often that a story on poetry makes the news section of the Sydney Morning Herald, but a war of words between poets John Kinsella, Anthony Lawrence and Robert...
2006 Mary Gilmore Award
The 2006 Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of poetry published in the preceding two calendar years has been awarded to David McCooey for his collection Blister Pack (Salt)....