Michael Ondaatje’s ‘little fragments’ that lead to prize-winning work

Michael Ondaatje’s ‘little fragments’ that lead to prize-winning work

The award-winning novelist says he’s writing only poetry at the moment and his new collection has an ‘elegiac tone’.

  • byJP O'Malley

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This festival nurtured a generation of talent. Now it’s on life support

This festival nurtured a generation of talent. Now it’s on life support

For two decades the National Young Writers’ Festival has been a crucible for Australian literary talent,but its future is now in doubt.

  • byNell Geraets
The writing that shows the business of poetry for Seamus Heaney

The writing that shows the business of poetry for Seamus Heaney

The Nobel laureate for literature’s correspondence reveals much about how he worked and the difficulties of his situation as Ireland’s greatest modern poet.

  • byGregory Day
Girlhood,’90s TV and Britney Spears converge in poet Kate Middleton’s new book

Girlhood,’90s TV and Britney Spears converge in poet Kate Middleton’s new book

Television explores how screen-time gets under our collective and individual skins.

  • byBrooke Boland
How two poets approach their struggles with colonisation and racism

How two poets approach their struggles with colonisation and racism

Reading Jeanine Leane and Sara M Saleh’s work together illuminates intriguing mutual concerns.

  • byLyn McCredden
Australian poetry is having a moment

Australian poetry is having a moment

Plus:get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.

  • byMelanie Kembrey,Barry Divola,Frances Mocnik,Melissa Singer,Greg Callaghan,Katrina Strickland,Tim Elliott andDeborah Cooke
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Award-winning poet Sarah Holland-Batt on fixing the system that failed her dad
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Award-winning poet Sarah Holland-Batt on fixing the system that failed her dad

The author also explains why paying attention is important for her craft.

  • byBenjamin Law
What the hell am I doing reading poems? Try it. You’ll thank me

What the hell am I doing reading poems? Try it. You’ll thank me

You might not understand it at first,but please,embrace the mystery.

  • byAnson Cameron
‘I tell people I’m a poet,they’re shocked it’s a viable job’:Jazz Money

‘I tell people I’m a poet,they’re shocked it’s a viable job’:Jazz Money

Jazz Money is one of the headliners for a month-long celebration of the best in Australian verse,as an official poet laureate looms on the horizon.

  • byLenny Ann Low
No flesh nor bones:Why Nick Cave has nothing to fear from ChatGPT

No flesh nor bones:Why Nick Cave has nothing to fear from ChatGPT

Amid the hysteria about AI,humanity has a fundamental,if painful,advantage.

  • byRichard King
Medium-pacers think this song is about them
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Medium-pacers think this song is about them

Or are they taking the Mick?