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Australian Literature 102: Les Murray's Selected Poems Event · Mon, 20 May 2013

Les Murray is undoubtedly one of Australia’s greatest living poets – and an international literary legend.The New Yorker has described him as ‘now routinely mentioned among the three or four leading …

 

Texts in the City: Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems Event · Tue, 12 Mar 2013

Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and…

 

Introducing Inkerman & Blunt: A new M... Dailies · Fri, 01 Mar 2013

Most of the news we hear about publishing these days is pretty grim, to say the least … it’s all about bookshops closing, sales plummeting and jobs being lost. So, it’s especially nice to hear the…

 

Working with Words: Pip Smith Dailies · Thu, 17 Jan 2013

Pip Smith is currently poet-in-residence at The Lifted Brow. She has had her poems and stories published in HEAT, Meanjin, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Island and Pan Magazine, and also runs…

 

AMERICA Bonus: Ron Rash Video · Thu, 27 Sep 2012

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As a bonus to celebrate our AMERICA series, here’s a video-only interview with American poet, novelist and writer of short fiction Ron Rash. He discusses his decision to properly explore writing as a…

 

Review: Southern Barbarians Dailies · Thu, 13 Sep 2012

It’s unusual for a new collection of poems to have an introduction. They often appear in a collected or selected poems, serving to frame a writer’s life and work; but I don’t recall seeing an…

 

Meet Our Second Round of Hot Desk Fel... Dailies · Mon, 10 Sep 2012

We’ve recently welcomed our second round of Hot Desk Fellowships, supported by the Readings Foundation, to the Wheeler Centre.We bid a sad farewell to our first round of fellows: Luke Ryan, Mel…

 

Debut Mondays: Debut Mondays Event · Mon, 18 Jun 2012

The first event ever to run at the Wheeler Centre was a Debut Mondays session, and two years On, we’re just as committed to fostering new talent.Whether it’s meeting Australian literature’s newest…

 

Texts in the City: Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood Video · Thu, 17 May 2012

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In this special video-only edition of Texts in the City, the Wheeler Centre’s Jenny Niven looks at Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood with Chris Wallace-Crabbe – writer, Australian Poetry chair and…

 

10 - Ten Writers, Five Double-Bills: Sjón and Roddy Doyle Event · Mon, 14 May 2012

In this globalised world, we’re increasingly drawn to stories from other places; talesthat immerse us in faraway cultures. And where better to find our stories than in fellowUNESCO Cities of…

 

Sjón Video · Mon, 14 May 2012

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Icelandic author Sjón is a rock ‘n’ roll renaissance man. He writes poetry, pens lyrics for Björk, wrote a whale-watching ‘splatter film’, and won the Nordic equivalent of the Man Booker for his…

 

Australian Literature 101: Judith Wright: Poems Event · Thu, 22 Mar 2012

Who tells the story of a country? What story does a country’s national literature tell about its people and its identity? Is there such a thing as Australian literature at all?Australians are…

 

The New Year: Australian Poetry Dailies · Thu, 22 Dec 2011

As 2011 ends and 2012 begins, we’ve invited our resident organisations to consider the year gone by and to share their plans for the year to come.Australian Poetry has had an exciting inaugural…

 

On Rhyme & Reason Dailies · Wed, 07 Dec 2011

The literary world has always been riddled with controversy. There’s a couple of controversies doing the rounds that we found of interest for what they say about about a new anthology of American…

 

Liao Yiwu Video · Thu, 24 Nov 2011

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Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist, musician and screenwriter currently living in exile in Germany because of government suppression of his work in China. Imprisoned for four years following…

 

Slam Critic Slammed Dailies · Wed, 16 Nov 2011

Poetry’s fortunes in the wider world can seem grim at times but for lovers of poetry – its writers and readers – the form is more often than not little less than an obsession. As such, the poetry…

 

You Say You Want a Revolution: Emmanuel Jal Speaks Video · Wed, 19 Oct 2011

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Sudanese rapper and writer Emmanuel Jal is a child of war. The internationally acclaimed hip-hop star is celebrated for his electrifying concerts and albums, songs written about his homeland and his …

 

National Poetry Festival Set for Darw... Dailies · Thu, 13 Oct 2011

Next year’s National Poetry Festival is to be held in Darwin from 10 to 13 May. The festival will be held in conjunction with Wordstorm, the Festival of Australasian Writing, which will kick off on 1…

 

New Laureate to Accept Prize Musically Dailies · Mon, 10 Oct 2011

Last week we reported on the betting frenzy surrounding the lead-up to the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The frontrunner was the Syrian poet Adonis, although there were serious…

 

Australian Poetry: Beginnings Event · Fri, 07 Oct 2011

The Wheeler Centre joins forces with Australian Poetry to celebrate the release of the latest Australian Poetry Journal with a night of readings and discussion. Coinciding with the publication of…

 

Emilie Zoey Baker in Defence of Slam Poetry Video · Thu, 29 Sep 2011

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Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning poet and spoken word performer who has performed and been published nationally and internationally. In this Lunchbox/Soapbox polemic, she energetically responds …

 

Lunchbox / Soapbox: Emilie Zoey Baker in Defence of Slam Poetry Event · Thu, 29 Sep 2011

Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.At the Wheeler Centre we’re keen to showcase our writers as thinkers and as…

 

Norwich's Fine Literary Pedigree Dailies · Tue, 06 Sep 2011

By Lisa DempsterIn addition to being a celebration of all things literary, one of the most exciting things about Melbourne being a UNESCO City of Literature is the potential for us to connect with a …

 

Celebrating Poetry All Week Dailies · Mon, 05 Sep 2011

Image of a Lego WB Yeats via Dunechaser/Flickr Poetry – even poets don’t always like it. Marianne Moore, a major 20th-century American poet, wrote a poem, appropriately…

 

Call for Submissions for the First Au... Dailies · Wed, 17 Aug 2011

Australian Poetry has announced plans to produce an anthology of poems by its members. The Wheeler Centre resident organisation is planning to make the publication a annual event as part of the…

 

The Late Great: Marcus Clarke Video · Tue, 16 Aug 2011

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Iconic Australian literature doesn’t come much more iconic than For the Term of His Natural Life, the quintessential convict tale. We remember its author: journalist, poet and novelist Marcus…

 

Two Sides of the Story: Beyond the Couplet Event · Mon, 01 Aug 2011

Never supping on oysters and Moet,writers earn very little (and know it),but while it might take ages,to earn from your pages,spare a thought for the struggling poet.Each month at the Wheeler…

 

Two Sides of the Story: Beyond the Couplet Video · Mon, 01 Aug 2011

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Going Beyond the Couplet, acclaimed Victorian writers Craig Sherborne and Cate Kennedy sit down together for a conversation exploring the points of commonality and difference in their respective…

 

Librarians Review the Premier's 21: P... Dailies · Mon, 01 Aug 2011

Every day this week we’ll be publishing reviews of each of the Premier’s 21 titles shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. These reviews are not written by professional reviewers…

 

Byron Bay Writer's Festival Claims We... Dailies · Mon, 25 Jul 2011

Advertising agency George Patterson/Y&R are claiming to be the first to create a poem in the form of a website URL. The poem was devised to promote the Byron Bay Writers' Festival, which begins…

 

Soliciting Legislators of the Unackno... Dailies · Fri, 24 Jun 2011

In ‘A Defence of Poetry’, an essay written in 1821 and published posthumously in 1840, English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley defined poets as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”. Since then…

 

A Poet for the Silver City Dailies · Fri, 17 Jun 2011

Sydney Opera House 1975, image by Gregory Melle, via Flickr Sydney is appointing a city poet to sing the virtues of the city in verse. For $20,000 over 12 months, the poet …

 

TJ Clark: The Art Historian and the Poet Video · Wed, 15 Jun 2011

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Professor Timothy Clark is one of the world’s most respected art historians. Professor Timothy Clark is also TJ Clark, poet. He talks to Antoni Jach about his dual intellectual lives, their points…

 

TJ Clark: The Art Historian and the Poet Event · Wed, 15 Jun 2011

Professor Timothy Clark is one of the world’s most respected art historians. Currently the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of York, he is also the author of a series of books on…

 

Fatima Bhutto Event · Wed, 18 May 2011

When she was 14, Fatima Bhutto huddled in the corner of a closet shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside her home. Those shots killed her father and continued the…

 

Chinese Writer Prevented From Visitin... Dailies · Thu, 12 May 2011

Liao Yiwu, photographed in Cologne last year, via Wikipedia Meet Liao Yiwu, an author and musician from China’s Sichuan province, which borders Tibet in central China. In h…

 

Swimming the Hellespont Dailies · Tue, 03 May 2011

Lord Byron in Albanian dress, by Thomas Phillips, 1813, collection of the British Embassy, Athens, via Wikipedia The History channel’s website has a neat feature: a…

 

Thirty of the Best Dailies · Thu, 28 Apr 2011

In the US, National Poetry Month is drawing to a close. Does its timing have anything to do the famous first line of TS Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’? Not according to Wikipedia, but we have our…

 

The Poetics of Shoe-Throwing Dailies · Tue, 12 Apr 2011

There has been much speculation about social media’s potential in bringing about social change. The discussion has been brought to the fore by the upheavals sweeping the Arab world. As previously…

 

Metaphorical Guns for Hire Dailies · Fri, 08 Apr 2011

In the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, the eponymous hero – a brilliant poet with an extremely large nose – improvises romantic poetry to help his friend seduce the woman they both love. With an…

 

All the World's a Poem Dailies · Mon, 21 Mar 2011

Today is World Poetry Day. To mark the occasion, we found this list of the 10 best American poems, this story of an animated screen adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, we swooned at this…

 

Australian Poetry in your Phone Dailies · Mon, 07 Mar 2011

Wheeler Centre resident organisation Australian Poetry has launched its own iPhone app. The app aims to be a one-stop shop for Australian poetry: “We would like to list all leading Australian poets, …

 

The Poetry of Revolution Dailies · Tue, 22 Feb 2011

A banner that reads ‘Leave!’ during protests in Tahrir Square last month in Cairo. Image via WikiCommons While the ripples of a 24-year-old Tunisian grocer’s

 

Launch of a Thousand Sails Dailies · Wed, 16 Feb 2011

Last night the Wheeler Centre hosted the launch of Australian Poetry. The event’s evocative title, ‘A Thousand Sails’, was taken from a poem by Chinese-Australian poet Ouyang Yu, who used the image t…

 

Thousands of Sails - Launching Australian Poetry Event · Tue, 15 Feb 2011

Chris Wallace-Crabbe calls poetry an ‘often quiet art’, though a large community of Australians read, write, and are passionate about the form.Join us, as we launch Australian Poetry, a new national …

 

Poem Sets New Printing Standard Dailies · Mon, 07 Feb 2011

From July to October 2010, Iowa City poet David Morice set himself a daunting task: to write a 100-page poem every day for 100 days. Entitled ‘Poetry City Marathon’, the poem was written as part of e…

 

99 Year-Old Poet Becomes Bestseller Dailies · Thu, 27 Jan 2011

There are many writers who have found literary fame late in life. None, however, can match the late-career bloom that is Toyo Shibata. At the age of 99, she’s become one of Japan’s bestselling…

 

Words & Music: The Poet's Voice: Lovers In Trouble Event · Wed, 10 Nov 2010

From Catullus to Shakepeare, Auden to Dickinson, poetry has long struggled to understand love. To celebrate the publication of Love Poems by Dorothy Porter, readers including Richard Gill, David…

 

Lyrics to Imaginary Songs by Mark Mordue Dailies · Tue, 09 Nov 2010

Music writer Mark Mordue When I think about poetry, about my need to read it and reflect on it and even express the odd poem here and there as if there were a more pure or …

 

Why "Lovers In Trouble" by Andrea Gol... Dailies · Mon, 08 Nov 2010

Novelist Andrea Goldsmith shared her life with the late Dorothy Porter Dorothy Porter was known for her brilliant performance. She studied acting in her teen years and…

 

Words & Music: Rama Lama Ding Dong Event · Fri, 05 Nov 2010

“Lyrics don’t mean anything! Like ‘Rama-lama-ding-dong’ or ‘Give Peace a Chance’!” – Homer SimpsonThe Edsels released, “Rama Lama Ding Dong” in 1958 which became a national hit, but surely not…

 

Berlin Dayz Video · Thu, 04 Nov 2010

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Berlin’s appetites in writers is certainly eclectic. From reportage to satire to slam poetry, this video introduces us to slam poet Bas Bottcher, radio reporter Carsten Beyer and social commentator W…

 

Ladbrokes Likes Our Les Dailies · Thu, 30 Sep 2010

Les Murray’s latest, Taller When Prone Poet Les Murray is favourite Australian in the race for the Nobel Prize according to British bookmakers Ladbrokes.The bookies put…

 

Poetry from the East Event · Thu, 16 Sep 2010

Ian Johnston is the eminent translator of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, published in Hobart, Hong Kong and New York. Barry Hill is the celebrated poet and historian who has won numerous…

 

Lisa Gorton, Our First Poet in Residence Dailies · Wed, 01 Sep 2010

In partnership with RMIT, the Australian Poetry Centre is bringing a poet in residence to the Wheeler Centre.The program will mean that poets have the opportunity to write but also be available for …

 

Ian Johnston Presenter · Fri, 20 Aug 2010

In 1999, Ian Johnston retired from his work as a neurosurgeon in Sydney where he had spent the previous 25 years. He moved to South Bruny Island to live a life of relative seclusion and to devote…

 

Barry Hill Presenter · Fri, 20 Aug 2010

Hill was born in Australia and educated in Melbourne and London, where he worked as a psychologist and a journalist (The Age and the Times Educational Supplement). He has been writing full-time…

 

Cordite Gets Creative and Common Dailies · Wed, 04 Aug 2010

Cordite editor David The latest issue of Australian online journal Cordite is asking its readers to become re-mixers by offering them the chance to download the…

 

We pay tribute to the life of one of ... Dailies · Mon, 05 Jul 2010

 

Celebration of the New Poets Series Event · Thu, 01 Jul 2010

Australian Poetry Centre invites you to the launch of the 2010 APC New Poets Series: A Question of Translation by Ann de Hugard, The Weeping Grass by Michelle Leber, Sundecked by Rachael…

 

Tribute to Peter Porter Event · Fri, 25 Jun 2010

Peter Porter, one of Australia’s finest writers, died earlier this year at the age of 81. To commemorate his lifeand remember his work, the Wheeler Centre and the Australian Poetry Centre pays…

 

Tribute to Peter Porter Video · Fri, 25 Jun 2010

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Peter Porter, one of Australia’s finest writers, died earlier this year at the age of 81. To commemorate his life and remember his work, the Wheeler Centre and the Australian Poetry Centre paid…

 

Last Words for Peter Porter Dailies · Mon, 14 Jun 2010

The passing of Peter Porter in April created an absence in Australian poetry that many are still mourning.His obituary in the Guardian quoted Porter’s poetic maxim from the 1960s “What I have…

 

Carol Ann Duff's Silver lining Dailies · Fri, 23 Apr 2010

In the wake of the eruption of Iceland's volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, the Guardian features Carol Ann Duff's poem Silver lining.

 

Les Murray Video · Thu, 08 Apr 2010

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Les Murray reads from his new volume of poems, Taller When Prone.

 

Ted Hughes honoured Dailies · Wed, 24 Mar 2010

Poet Ted Hughes is to be recognised with a permanent memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, the Independent reports. Ted Hughes…

 

Ezra Bix: "poetry, poesy, poems sing the truths... Video · Sun, 31 Jan 2010

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… which our hearts long to harmonise."Ezra Bix, author of Dancing in the Lifeboat and serial poetry slam winner, recites What have you done to nurture the nation’s soul Wayne McBicep?January 2010 at…

 

Craig Sherborne: 'grit and blood-brown dust'

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Craig Sherborne, poet and author of the memoirs Hoi Polloi and Muck reads his poem Ash Saturday. January 2010 at the Wheeler Centre.

 

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