The David Harold Tribe Poetry Award 2013

The Department of English is pleased to be hosting the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, which is now open for submissions. The Award is designed to encourage the writing of and appreciation for poetry in Australia, and is open to poets across the nation. The prize money of $12,000 makes it one of the most generous poetry prizes in Australia. The award will be made for the best original poem of up to 100 lines, and the winner will be selected by an expert judging panel, which is made...

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Vale: Sally Clarke - our dear member and poet will be sadly missed

We are sad to learn of the passing of our much loved member and poet Sally Clarke.  RIP from Dancing in Odessa              by Ilya Kaminsky We lived North of the future…   were born there into summer twilight evenings; cold winter nights, frost and snow underlay our present, hard-to-ignore cuckoo call, hazy bluebell woods, deciduous trees, gold autumn Cotswold stone, that way of thinking... yet we have lived here more...

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Multilingual Poetry @ the Perth Poetry Festival 2013

Rosie Barter will read at an evening of poetry performed by bilingual and multilingual poets coordinated by Belgian-born poet, Tineke Van der Eecken. Rosie 's poetry will be read in both English and Greek. Other poets, incl. Weina Fan, Vivienne Glance, Anna Kiss-Gyorgy, Afeil Ismail, Rashida Murphy and Hessom Razavi. Including the host Tineke Van der Eecken these poets will charm you with language, and introduce you to rich and diverse cultures of the world. There will be open mike for...

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Peter Porter Poetry Prize

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2014 is now open, with prize money worth a total of $6500. This year we will be accepting online submissions for the first time and we encourage poets to  enter online. Also for the first time this year, we will be accepting international entries. Click here to enter online. We will also be accepting hard copy entries using this entry form. The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees...

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