If poetry was a physical ailment it would more likely be hay fever: sharp, serial, sometimes colourful, not life-threatening ... fact that far from being ill, "Australian poetry has never ...

But a good deal of Australian poetry is accessible. For example, David Malouf begins a poem with a familiar vision of urban life: A city of too much glass; too many walls Furthermore, Australian ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

However, three Australian poets spring to mind whose ... So . . . what is poetry? The best poems are those fragments of life, perhaps just flickerings of the imagination, that Koreeda's characters ...

Picture: Supplied “It has been my privilege to share in Bruce’s life for the ... said West Australian poet John Kinsella. “He taught many of us that poetry had a role to play in society ...

12 year old Solli Raphael is named the Australian Poetry Slam Champion ... and plans to keep doing what he loves. "Poetry will always be a part of my life," he says. "I'm actually writing ...

So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word.

Inspired by (among others) the DeafBlind poet and essayist John Lee Clark, Colgate unfolds a welcome array of poems about his own queer, complicated, sociable life in New Haven and Toronto ...