Picture: Supplied “It’s an end of an era in Australian writing,’’ said West Australian poet John Kinsella. “He taught many of us that poetry had a role to play in society, that it’s ...

They were was going through the recently acquired papers of the Australian poet when they stumbled on ... Odd News // 3 days ago 309 people don banana hats to break world record at Missouri ...

On the way to bury his mother in 1951, Les Murray saw an old Aboriginal man standing by the road with his eyes down and hat off ... and prejudices." Australian poet Les Murray has died.Credit ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian poet Emma Jones has won Best First Collection at Britain's prestigious Forward Prizes for Poetry. The 32-year-old Sydney ...

Les Murray called himself a "subhuman redneck", but the Australian poet and writer was also "the patron saint of misfits" who sang the nation's landscape, culture and vernacular into being ...

Anne Marsh receives funding from Australian Research Council and the Australia Council for the Arts. Tomorrow, a new book by the Adelaide-born performance poet and playwright Christopher Barnett ...