The 2021 WAPI AGM will be held in the WAPI Office (Rm 33, Level 2 Bon Marche Arcade, 80 Barrack St. Perth) on 23th October commencing at 12 noon.
To participate in the AGM via Zoom, click here to register
Nominations are called for the following positions
Chairperson (3-year term)
Deputy Chairperson
Secretary
Treasurer
Social Media/Publicity Officer
Fundraising Officer
Ordinary Committee Members
To download a nomination form click on the following
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest. To read the winning poems click here
To purchase a copy of the 2021 Poetry d’Amour Anthology click here
Congratulations to the winners of the Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Awards. To read the winning poems and haiku click here
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Ros Spencer Poetry Contest. To read the winning poems click here
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
“I loved the personification as a hermit crab scurrying everywhere and the changing panel van’s rusting that leads to the next habitation and shift in lifestyle. Totally accessible, slightly cynical and so ebulliently buoyant!”
Peter Jeffery OAM on “Hermit Crab” by Virginia O’Keefe
To purchase a copy of the Anthology, click here
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
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
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
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.
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.
