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In an age of doomscrolling and AI, young Australians are turning to poetry
From poetry slams and pop-up readings to chapbooks and Instagram, young people are embracing a form that offers honesty, experimentation, connection and a way to navigate an increasingly complex world. In a world of doomscrolling and the prescriptive responses of AI, young people are increasingly turning to poetry: a form that is raw, honest and authentic. Poetry also invites the absurd and the experimental, making it a truly flexible way of facing both intimate and global complexity.
In an age of doomscrolling and AI, young Australians are turning to poetry
From poetry slams and pop-up readings to chapbooks and Instagram, young people are embracing a form that offers honesty, experimentation, connection and a way to navigate an increasingly complex world. In a world of doomscrolling and the prescriptive responses of AI, young people are increasingly turning to poetry: a form that is raw, honest and authentic. Poetry also invites the absurd and the experimental, making it a truly flexible way of facing both intimate and global complexity.
Poetry is popular with young Australians, from pop-up readings to poetry slams
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In a world of doomscrolling and the prescriptive responses of AI, young people are increasingly turning to poetry: a form that is raw, honest and authentic. Poetry also invites the absurd and the experimental, making it a truly flexible way of facing both intimate and global complexity. Around 24% of children and young people (aged eight to 18) read poetry in their free time at least once a month, a 2025 United Kingdom survey found.
Bronwyn Lea review ‘The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry’ edited by Ann Vickery and Philip Mead
Histories of Australian poetry have long told the same story: a poetry that gradually frees itself from British models and becomes recognisably its own, a story now so familiar it can sound less like an argument than a fact. The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry, edited by Ann Vickery and Philip Mead, replaces that narrative with a more exacting claim: that ‘Australian poetry’ is not something that simply emerges over time but something people make. Continue reading for only $10 per month.
Life ‘out of nowhere’ at the ‘scraping of midnight’: two illustrious poets illuminate the times
As a way to gather poetry from across a career, a “selected” is not as unwieldy or as final-sounding as a “complete” or “collected” edition. The even more popular “new and selected” helps old poems reach a new audience, while offering established readers some of the poet’s latest work. As Jill Jones notes in her latest collection, Acrobat Music: New and Selected Poems, there are practical issues as well. Poetry volumes tend to go out of print and are unlikely to be digitised.
Life ‘out of nowhere’ at the ‘scraping of midnight’: two illustrious poets illuminate the times
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Spirit of Service Award winners for 2024
Five government programs were recognised for their impact on the Australian community at last night’s Spirit of Service Awards. The Spirit of Service Awards recognise public sector initiatives driving positive change in the community. Awards are given for the categories of learning, collaboration, community engagement and breakthrough. The discretionary Kerry Kennedy Award celebrates small organisations or agencies that achieve excellence by collaborating and thinking outside of the box.
Moving into the future of public service, with empathy
Empathy is a critical component of human interactions. It is an innate skill that helps people connect, understand, and appreciate the feelings and experiences of others. In doing so, it helps establish trust and promote cooperative behaviour. For many of us, empathy is so natural that we may only reflect on it when it is absent.
Seeking election in the ACT took more courage than this policy wonk bargained for
Dr. Vanessa Picker, who is running as an Independent candidate for Brindabella in the ACT Legislative Assembly, has conquered many challenges in her 33 years. Working her way up the rungs of seniority in the worlds of policy, bureaucracy and the academy, she already has a PhD in social intervention and policy evaluation from Oxford under her belt and was South Australia’s 2013 ‘Young Australian of the Year’. So why has a tilt in the Territory elections been so tough?
Public Lecture: Keston Sutherland, "Capital's Dithyramb"
Public Lecture from leading radical poet and Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex, Keston Sutherland. By Ann Vickery and Justin Clemens Tue, 13 Jun 2023 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM AEST Location Trades Hall/Lygon St (Balit-Mil Room) 54 Victoria Street Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia About this event 1 hour 30 minutes Mobile eTicket Poet and Marxist scholar, Keston Sutherland is a leading figure in English radical writing today. His poetry is a dazzling critique of the relations of capital.
The first three winners of the Stella Prize, at the 2015 ceremony: Clare Wright (2014, 'The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka'), Carrie Tiffany (2013, 'Mateship with Birds') and Emily Bitto (2015, 'The Strays'). Photo: Connor Tomas O'Brien Share Tweet Share Linkedin Email Print article Local arts needs local journalism. Donate to InReview today. Now in its tenth year, the Stella Prize – founded as a reaction to the under-representation of women in Australian literary culture – has been a force for change.
The tenth Stella longlist reflects its mission of creating change
Now in its tenth year, the Stella Prize – founded as a reaction to the under-representation of women in Australian literary culture – has been a force for change. As conversations about representation continue to evolve, the prize does, too. This year’s longlist, just announced, reflects those conversations. For example, five of the 12 longlisted writers are Indigenous. One writer is non-binary (the first non-binary writer to be recognised was just last year).
Indigenous voices, #MeToo and disrupting genre: How the tenth Stella longlist reflects its mission of creating change
Now in its tenth year, the Stella Prize – founded as a reaction to the under-representation of women in Australian literary culture – has been a force for change. As conversations about representation continue to evolve, the prize does too. This year’s longlist, just announced, reflects those conversations. For example, five of the 12 longlisted writers are Indigenous. One writer is non-binary (the first non-binary writer to be recognised was just last year).
Richard Mahony’s Most August Imagination
Poem Poem Before you could say Jack Robinson, I was posting a letter in the box that looks like a lean-to at the crepuscular end of the mind. The fire-fangled glow from the South kept sending small birds into the air until they capitulated as an augury of burnt offerings. Each wife, a postmistress, you pursued your loveless schemes through the endpapers of summer while I played the craftsman maintaining a constant foliage. We shared an inborn contrariness.
Guide to the classics: My Brilliant Career and its uncompromising message for girls today
Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised damsel in distress. My sister and I spent an entire summer pigging out on Choc Wedges and Barney Bananas so we could collect the men’s cricket team on specially marked sticks. Feminism seemed a world “far, far away”. Yet what Australian girls could and couldn’t do was being explored through a glut of screen adaptations of classic novels.
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