Poetry d’Amour Anthology 2023
Congratulations to all of the poets who were selected for inclusion in this anthology. ‘There are many more things that great writers, philosophers and religious leaders have written about love
2023 Poetry Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners in the following categories. To read the winning entries click on the link. —— 2023 Creatrix haiku and Poetry Awards click here —— 2023 Poetry d’Amour
2023 Perth Poetry Festival
9th–17th SeptemberMain 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
2023 Poetry d’Amour Anthology
… all wrote very sincerely about their experiences, hopes and losses … They demonstrated ably what could be the three most significant aspects of human love: celebration, yearning and loss.
‘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
‘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
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A poetry contest from WA Poets Inc. open to all poets for original and unpublished poems of up to 60 lines on any theme with the opportunity to be included
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
2022 Creatrix Prize Winners
Congratulations to the Creatrix Poetry and Haiku Prize winners. To read the winning poems click here