Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. David Brooks and Peter Rose give their selection of the best Australian poems of 2008. As well as ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

"The Biplane Houses" is not the first book Les Murray has dedicated "To the glory of God." Yet the Australian poet rarely invokes God directly. Such a presence can be inferred only by the subtle ...

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 ...

August is Poetry Month. Guardian Australia has teamed up with Red Room Poetry to bring you a very special edition of our interactive Zoom book club, featuring Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Omar Sakr and ...