Since 2016, WA Poets Inc (based in Perth, Western Australia) has conducted the Ros Spencer Poetry Contest. Having run the contest for several years, the organisers produced an anthology in late 2019 containing poems from all four contests to date. Brushstrokes, the Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology 2016-19, presents poems selected by Dennis Haskell and Rose… Read More Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the New Zealand Poetry Society runs an annual competition with sections for open verse and haiku as well as categories for younger writers under 18 years of age. Each year, winning and selected poems from the competition are published in an anthology. The 2019 anthology is The Perfect… Read More New Zealand Poetry Society: 2019 Anthology
There was a great crowd along at Smith’s Alternative on Monday night, 29 April 2019, to hear poetry presented live. Canberra poet Martin Dolan was MC for the night as he introduced the open mic poets, followed by Tricia Dearborn from Sydney and myself, who each gave a 20 minute reading of our poetry. The… Read More Tricia Dearborn: Autobiochemistry
Yass Valley Writers have recently released a new collection of their work, Voices from the Valley: an anthology of stories and verse, Vol. III. Members of the writing group, which has been running for 20 years, are drawn from Yass (New South Wales) and surrounding towns. The current anthology features a wonderful range of… Read More New Anthology from Yass Valley Writers
Earlier this year, EGW Publishing from California in the USA released the first issue of a new journal: Nourish Poetry. Issue 1 of Nourish Poetry offers more than 80 pages of contemporary poems plus 25 pages of haiku, showcasing an international line-up of poets. The collection is headlined by Juan Felipe Herrera who was the… Read More Nourish Poetry: Issue 1
Each year the Central Coast Poets of New South Wales (Australia) conduct the Henry Kendall Poetry Award. Kendall (1839-1882) was a nineteenth century Australian author and bush poet who had a difficult personal life but whose books of poetry achieved considerable acclaim. Kendall’s poems invariably described Australian settings and situations. Here is an extract from… Read More Henry Kendall Poetry Award
Vine Leaves Press began publishing the Vine Leaves Literary Journal in 2011. Since its inception, the journal has presented ‘vignettes’ in poetry and prose. Editor of the journal, Jessica Bell, explains that a vignette doesn’t operate within the traditional realms of structure or plot, instead focusing on mood, character or setting to create an atmosphere… Read More Vine Leaves Literary Journal
I just received my copy of Poetry d’Amour 2016 in the post. What a delightful volume of love poems selected from the entries to this year’s Poetry d’Amour Love Poetry Contest. Run by WA Poets, and judged by Amanda Joy, the contest was won by Alison Thompson with her wistful poem simply titled Moss. The… Read More Poetry d’Amour 2016
Gregory Piko 