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Poetry and Poetics Centre
Thank you for visiting our website. We are pleased to bring you the latest news in poetry and poetics from South Australia and interstate.
Max Harris Poetry Award 2009
This year's Max Harris Poetry Award is now open. Offering a prize of $3,000 for the winning entry, the Max Harris Poetry Award aims to recognise the talent of Australian poets. For further information about this year's competition, please follow this link.
Poetry and Poetics Symposium
The third annual Poetry and Poetics Symposium was held on the 1st and 2nd of May at the SA Migration Museum.
On the theme of 'Eight generations of experience', the symposium presented works by locally based poets and academics relating to the experiences and issues of migration. The symposium featured a keynote presentation by Professor Graeme Harper, the launch of the book Mindscape, a poetry and musical presentation, as well as poetry readings and papers. Further information is available on our Poetry and Poetics Symposium page.
Pod of Poets
ABC Radio National's PoeticA is featuring a Pod of Poets, a podcast series of Australian poetry. Follow this link to the PoeticA website.
To read about other poetry news and events, click here.
Poems in Perspex: Max Harris Poetry Award 2007
On 6 November, the Poetry and Poetics Centre launched the book Poems in Perspex: Max Harris Poetry Award 2007, edited by Ioana Petrescu, Cameron Fuller and Gill Ratcliff. Jill Jones, Senior Lecturer at Adelaide University, launched the book, which features poems from the 2007 competition as well as essays about poetry and poetics. Photos from the launch can be viewed here.
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To order Poems in Perspex, print this form and send it to Lythrum Press, or order direct from the Lythrum Press website. |
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Interviews and poems
The Poetry and Poetics Centre website hosts a range of interviews and featured poems.
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Interview with 2007 Max Harris Poetry Award winner: Jan Owen. |
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Poetry News and Information
A selection of poems entered in the Max Harris Poetry Award 2008 were recently chosen by members of the Poetry and Poetics Centre. In addition to the entries selected by the judges, these poems are considered to be of high quality and worthy of recognition. We are pleased to present this selection of poems on our website.
Former UniSA student, Kim Mann launched her first poetry volume, Awake during anaesthetic in April. For more info about this and other book launches click here.
UniSA student Rob Hardy has just had his first poetry book published by Friendly Street in association with Wakefield Press.
The Meadows Muse Short Story and Poetry competitions are open to all writers. A poster and entry form can be downloaded.
For more information, visit http://www.meadows150.org.au/events/competitions.
To read about other poetry news and events, follow this link.
Recent Australian Poetry Reviews and information about UniSA Creative Writing publications are available in the 'Book Reviews' section.
Wander through our links to meet the Website Authors and Our Members and learn more About the Poetry and Poetics Centre.
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