Poetry On The Move

Both Sholeh Wolpé and Keijiro Suga are noted translators of poetry. Suga is a scholar of poetic translation at Meiji University in Tokyo who regularly translates from French, English and Spanish into Japanese. Wolpé’s translations from Farsi into English (including influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, and the new translation of …

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Bella Li is the author of Argosy (Vagabond Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the 2018 Kenneth Slessor Prize. Her work has been published in a range …

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Oz Hardwick is a writer, photographer,music journalist, and occasional musician, based in York (UK).. He has published six poetry collections, most recently TheHouse of Ghosts and Mirrors (Valley Press, 2017), and hasedited and co-edited …

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Jill Jones has published 11 full-length books of poetry, including Viva the Real (UQP, 2018), Brink (Five Islands Press, 2017), and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize …

Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival. Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone …

Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet, writer and translator whose latest books are Keeping time with Blue Hyacinths and her highly-regarded translation of Attar’s Conference of the Birds. Wolpé ’s literary work includes four collections of poetry, two plays, three books of translations, and three anthologies. Wolpé ’s writings have …

In conjunction with the Poetry on the Move festival, selected guests are commissioned to produce a chapbook of work new to Australian audiences. The series is linked to a program of poets in residence at the University of Canberra. Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo based poet, translator and professor of …

In this panel, Lines and Shapes, taken from 2018’s Poetry on the Move festival, four poets discuss the importance of form in and for poetry. How does a consideration of form affect composition? Is form a conservative call to tradition, or a rediscovery that allows poets to explore new ways …

Lionel Fogarty is one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers. A Yugambeh man, Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg. Throughout the 1970s he worked as an activist for Aboriginal Land Rights and protesting Aboriginal deaths …

Takako Arai published her first collection of poetry in 1997. Her second collection Tamashii Dansu received the Oguma Hideo Prize and several of the works were translated in Soul Dance: Poems by Takako Arai. She is an Associate Professor at Saitama University teaching Japanese language and poetry. Since 2014 she …

Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney. Her seventh collection of poetry, New and Selected Poems, will be published by Giramondo in 2018. Her previous volumes have won a number of prizes including NSW, Victorian and Queensland Premiers’ Poetry Awards, the Grace Leven Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She has also been …

Glyn Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britain’s major poets. His books include Pluto, Hide Now, The Sugar Mile, The Nerve, and his recent selected poems, One Thousand Nights and Counting. He has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E.M. Forster Prize from the American …

Sarah Holland-Batt is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at QUT. Her most recent book, The Hazards (UQP, 2015) won the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems have been widely published in journals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere, and have been translated into several languages; a Spanish …

In the first of our Summer readings series, Phillip Hall. Phillip Hall worked for many years as a teacher of outdoor education and sport throughout regional New South Wales, Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory. He now resides in Melbourne’s Sunshine, where he works fulltime as a writer. He also works as …

Stephen Edgar’s most recent book is Transparencies (Black Pepper, 2017). His two previous books, Eldershaw and Exhibits of the Sun, were both shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He has received the Grace Leven Poetry Prize (2003), the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize (2005) and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal (2006). Stephen lives …

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Australian poet, scholar and painter, and Professor of English at the University of Macau, in south China, where he has taught Literature and Creative Writing for the last 17 years. Books of his poetry have been published in Chinese, Indonesian, Portuguese, French, Filipino, Swedish, Italian and Spanish. Kelen’s …

Glyn Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britain’s major poets. His books include Pluto, Hide Now, The Sugar Mile, The Nerve, and his recent selected poems, One Thousand Nights and Counting. He has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E.M. Forster Prize from the American …

In this episode, Trinidadian/British poet and writer Vahni Capildeo. Vahni Capildeo Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at the University of Leeds.  Her seven publications include Measures of Expatriation which won the 2016 Forward Poetry Prizes Best Collection award; Simple Complex Shapes, a sequence completed during the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship, …

In this episode, a captivating  live performance, followed by an interview with Japanese poet Hiromi Ito recorded during her visit to Australia as part of the Poetry on the Move Festival. Since publication of her first collection of poetry in 1978, Hiromi Ito has been one of Japan’s  most celebrated poets. …

In this episode, we showcase a special performance by the Mothertongue multi-lingual poetry collective performing their original work ‘Homespun’. ‘Homespun’ is written and performed in five languages (six, including English) by four poets who came together through Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry events and workshops in Canberra. Originally created for the …