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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It was good to re-encounter W.T. Goodge's eight-line classic Life, even though its obscure ... a great excuse to revisit some outstanding Australian poems -- and a few outstandingly bad ones.

Some poetry anthologies feel long overdue. Many Such as She is one such. It is a “social and cultural map” of some of the Australian women ... Are bringing to life the targets / For the ...

says Murray's great achievement was defining and describing the minute sensations of everyday Australian life, grounded in a recognisably vernacular language. In his wistful poem The Dream of ...

Murray was the poet of the rural poor, and many of his poems deal with Australian life beyond the metropolitan centres, as well as with Australian history. But he was, especially since the 1990s ...

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 ...

I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November 2023, a growing number of wonderfully talented guests ...

Australian Bush Poetry is metered and rhymed poetry about country and its way of life. Margy is the reigning Central Queensland Bush Poet Champion and will recite some of her own work and other ...