A series of low cost workshops to develop and extend your poetry experience.
2021 Perth Poetry Festival Workshops
Taking Care of the Silences, The Grammar of Performance with Mar Bucknell
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Whistling Duck Wines
WA Poets Inc is pleased to offer an exciting and affordable range of wines from Calabria Family Wines, ‘Whistling Duck’ . Developed by the wine legend Len Evans and exported around the world, Whistling Duck Wines punch above their weight for quality and value. For more details click here
2021 Ros Spencer Poetry Contest
The 2021 Ros Spencer Poetry Contest is closed for judging.
Winners will be announced on Sunday 19th Sept (7–10pm) as part of the 2021 Perth Poetry Festival. The 2020–21 anthology “Brushstrokes II” will be launched in November.
This contest is proudly supported by Geoff Spencer and family
2021 Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest
Contest is now closed for judging
Winners will be announced at the launch of the 2021 Poetry d’Amour Anthology on September 12 as part of the 2021 Perth Poetry Festival.
To purchase back issues of the anthology click here
Becoming Known
Of our emerging poets who entered this program, we are excited to showcase six of them here in this anthology. Josephine Clarke, Fable Goldsmith. Ruari Jack Hughes, Taonga Sendama, Sunny Wignall and Colin Young are each incredibly gifted poets in their own right.
To purchase copies of the anthology click here
2020 Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest. To read the wining poems click here
To purchase copies of the 2020 Poetry d’Amour Anthology click here
To read past winning entries click here
To purchase a copy of the 2019 Poetry d’Amour Anthology click here
Dennis Haskell And Yet …
This is a collection of lyric poems of considerable variety exhibiting an unforced delight in language. It includes elegies, satires, love poems, comic works, and ekphrastic poems
To purchase copies of And Yet … click here
Creatrix 3
This is the third Creatrix Anthology of poetry and haiku selected from the online journal Creatrix.
To purchase copies click here
To read the 2020 Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Prize Winners click here
Membership
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WA Poets Inc is managed entirely by volunteers and is dedicated to promoting and developing poets and poetry. We are located in Perth, Western Australia, but welcome networking opportunities with national and international poets.
WA Poets Inc relies on membership fees to help cover some of the costs associated with presenting poetry events and programs.
Membership is from 1st July to 30th June.
To become a member or to renew your membership click here.
Poetry Editing
Are you interested in joining a positive support group to edit and offer constructive criticism of your poetry?
WA Poets is running a Poetry Editing group, 10am-1pm on the second and last Wednesday of each month, from our office (Room 33, Level 2, Bon Marche Arcade. 80 Barrack St. Perth). Cost is $5 per session for WAPI members ($10 for non members). If interested, please click here and leave a message.
