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Franco-Anglais Poetry Festival comes to MelbourneFrom 8 to 12 October Melbourne will host the 31st Franco-Anglais Poetry Festival. Free sessions and performances in French, English and other languages...

Osama Bin Laden, poet

An American academic journal is set to publish poems written by infmous Al Quaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

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Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize announced

New South Wales poet Angela Malone is the winner of the 2008 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. The prize, which was announced at the Tasmanian Book Fair on Sunday 24 August, was created in 1996 in memo...

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TV show helps sell poetry

A cult hit US TV show, Mad Men, has given an unexpected sales boost to the poetry of Frank O'Hara, with sales of his Meditations up 218%.

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Ryan named as US Poet Laureate

Kay Ryan has been named as the next US Poet Laureate....

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Griffin Poetry Prize announced

The winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at a colourful Caribbean-themed awards in Toronto on 4 June. Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashberry (internation...

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'Five Bells' up for saleThe copyright on one of Australia's best-known poems, Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor, is up for sale. Slessor's son, Paul, plans to use the proceeds from selling the rights...

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Poetry Centre Anzac festival

The recently established Australian Poetry Centre will host its inaugural National Festival in Castlemaine, Victoria, this Anzac Day weekend. Each year the festival will move to a regional town i...

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Clark wins ABR poetry prizeRoss Clark has been announced as the winner of the fourth Australian Book Review (ABR) poetry prize his poem ‘Danger: Lantana.' ABR celebrates 300 issuesThe...

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