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- 2023 Perth Poetry Festival
9th–17th September
Main Venue: Centre for Stories. 100 Aberdeen St. Northbridge.This will be the 19th annual Poetry Festival organised by WA Poets Inc and features invited national and local poets plus ample opportunities for public participation in a diverse program of free and low cost events. Professional development is also supported through workshops, seminars, panels and networking opportunities.
Guest poets biographies click here
Festival workshops click here
Festival program click here
The WA Poets Inc Australia Cultural Fund campaign, offering tax deductible donations that will be used to help pay poets fees and keep entry costs affordable, is now online, to donate click here
The 2023 Perth Poetry Festival receives funds from Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australia Cultural Fund and is supported by;
- ‘Who Comes Calling?’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo
There are so many gifts here: History experienced as history lived in a body; kindness and the difficulty of kindness; tender and patient reflection in the presence of pain. In the face of bullet holes. This is a work of generational, locational and situational introspection that yields, at its own life-fruiting pace, a gleaning---of courageous clear-seeing; of compassion addressed to contradiction and contention; of empathy. I am thankful it came calling.
Alvin Pang
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- ‘Infinite Ends’ by Amy Lin
Infinite Ends is an expansive collection. Presented chronologically, it is Blakeian in its transition from innocence to experience. Intelligent, direct and nuanced Lin's poems enquire and question, explore and wrestle with ideas and experiences. They are muscular and contemplative and plumb relationships with people and place using a variety of forms and styles. Sometimes deeply personal they share the universality of grief and loss without sentimentality but with a raw directness. These are brave poems. There are also poems of joy, shared memory and meaning. Infinite Ends holds the reader close, rewards with vivid images, moments of wry humour and an understated tenderness.
Julie Watts
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- 2023 Ros Spencer Poetry Contest
A poetry contest from WA Poets Inc. open to all poets for original and unpublished poems of up to 60 lines on any theme with the opportunity to be included in the anthology Brushstrokes 2023, to be launched in November 2023, and to win:
First Prize $1,001
Second Prize $299
Plus
2 x Highly Commended Awards
2 x Commended Awards
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY 23rd JUNE 2023
Conditions and an entry fee apply. For details and Submissions click here
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 ROS SPENCER Poetry Contest:
Gayelene Carbis,
Rhian Healy,
Shey Marque,
David Terelinck,
Scott-Patrick Mitchell and
SoulReserveTo read the winning entries click here
This contest is proudly supported by Geoff Spencer and family
- 2023 Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest
Closed for judging
- Brushstrokes III
Welcome to Brushstrokes III 2022. After seven years the Ros Spencer Poetry Prize is now an established competition on the Australian poetry calendar. Of the 277 poems submitted I chose 87 poems from 59 poets for the anthology. The poems gave me an intimate glimpse into lives and thoughts of poets in Australia and beyond. Poets wrote about bushfires, COVID, extinction, old age, stolen generation, immigrants, refugees, memories, landscapes, grief as well as the ever-present themes of love, death, nature, desire and identity.
Coral Carter, 2022 Contest Judge
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- 2022 Creatrix Prize Winners
Congratulations to the Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Prize winners. To read the winning poems click here