In this episode the panel ‘The Texture of Truth’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. ‘A poet’s job’ writes John Berryman, ‘ is not to play fast and loose with the facts of this world’ Or is it? Can poetry be true? What kind of truth, if any, […]

In this episode the panel ‘The Science of Poetry’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. It’s a commonplace that science is interested in objective and provable facts, while poetry is subjective: charting human experience and sensation. But this view neglects the many centuries in which poetry has responded […]

In this episode the panel ‘What Should Poetry Be?’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. Page, stage, rage or sage: there’s a lot of opinions on what poetry is and what it should be. Is it an oral art form or “patterned language”? Is it best heard, or […]

In this episode a panel on  ‘Poetry and Process’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. How do poets make their work original, moving, and incisive? How do they overcome limitations and explore what is possible in poetry? How do they innovate in their work? In this panel, we […]

In this episode the second of a two-part podcast ‘Poetry that Resists’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019, and presented with the support of and in conjunction with Australian Poetry. During the socially traumatised times of history the ability of poetry to express human conscience has seen it embraced […]

In this episode the first of a two-part podcast ‘Poetry that Resists’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. During the socially traumatised times of history the ability of poetry to express human conscience has seen it embraced as a significant art form. In this panel, a discussion on poets […]

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 Attar’s Persian classic The Conference of Birds) have opened the rich tradition of Persian poetry to readers in English. In this discussion, hosted by...

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 of journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems and The Kenyon Review, and displayed in the Triennial of the National Gallery of Victoria. Her latest book is Lost Lake (Vagabond...

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 several more, including (with Miles Salter) The Valley Press Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry, which was aNational Poetry Day recommendation in 2017.

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 for Poetry in 2015. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of...

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 on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök teaches English at Charles Darwin University .

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 been translated into eleven languages and included in numerous American and international anthologies and journals of poetry and fiction. Her 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 critical theory at Meiji University. He is well known for his ten books of essays of which Transversal Journeys (2010) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious...

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 of working? We’ll hear this question addressed by in turn, Lisa Gorton, Owen Bullock, Lisa Brockwell and Cassandra Atherton. Before opening up to a group discussion moderated by the host of the panel,...

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 in custody. He has published numerous collections of poetry in Australia.His most recent collections include Mogwie Idan: Stories of the land (Vagabond Press, 2012),...

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 has been involved with a regional language poetry project in Ofunato city. Here, she reads ‘Dollogy’ with the aid of Jen Crawford from the University of Canberra and discusses the...

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 a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. She was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005–2015. Her work has been studied in schools and universities. This episode...

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 Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Several of his plays have been staged in the UK and US. He has written several opera libretti, and his novel, Blue Burneau, was...

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 translation of The Hazards is forthcoming from Vaso Roto in late 2017. She is the editor of The Best Australian Poems 2017 (Black Inc), and Poetry Editor of Island. This...

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 an editor with Verity La’s ‘Emerging Indigenous Writers Project’ and as a poetry reader at Overland. In 2015 he published Diwurruwurru, a book of his collaborations with the...

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 in Sydney. This episode hosted by Shane Strange Sound production by Samuel Byrnand

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 most recent English-language volume of poems is Scavengers Season (Puncher and Wattmann, 2014). His next collection, Poor Man’s Coat – Hardanger Poems,...

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 Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Several of his plays have been staged in the UK and US. He has written several opera libretti, and his novel, Blue Burneau, was...