Dan Hogan (they/them) is a working-class writer originally from San Remo, NSW, Australia (Awabakal and Darkinjung Country) and is currently based on  Gadigal Country (Sydney).Dan’s debut full-length poetry collection Secret Third Thing won the 2022-2023 Five Islands Prize for a first book of poetry and was released by Cordite Books in 2023, and can be purchased here. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In.Dan's poetry has also been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry prize and Val Vallis Award, among others.Spanning poetry ..read more

In this episode, Palestinian-Australian activist, musician and intellectual Yousef Alreemawi and Lebanese-Australian writer and poet Farah Beaini have a beautiful dialogue about the poetry and life of famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.To learn more about the Averroes Project:https://www.facebook.com/averroesarabcentre ..read more

  On this episode, you’ll be listening to an interview with Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon. (D-Napoleon) is a poet, songwriter and educator from Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. ​She is the winner of both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and Katharine Susannah Prichard Poetry Prize, shortlistee for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and a two-time finalist for the Penelope Niven Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Her debut book of poetry, First Blood, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. Today we are speaking to her about her second book of poetry, “ If There is a Butterfly ..read more

David Brooks talks to Di Cousens about his 50 years in poetry and his new book, The Other Side of Daylight. Published by University of Queensland Press ..read more

Ray Liversidge’s latest book is …of a sudden published in 2023 by Ginninderra Press. His other books are: Oradour-sur-Glane published in 2017 by Littlefox Press. A French/English version of the book was published in 2019. no suspicious circumstances: portraits of poets (dead); The Barrier Range; The Divorce Papers; and Obeying the Call. He also appeared with two other poets in the first issue of Triptych Poets. His verse novel The Barrier Range was adapted for stage and performed as Seeking Fabled Waters at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival. In that year he also won the Bruce Dawe National P ..read more

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 In honour of the much-loved and respected poet, editor, publisher and teacher, Ron Pretty AM (1940-2023), 3CR Spoken Word runs a program from its archive from 2022 in which friends of Ron Pretty and fellow poets Kevin Brophy AM and Alex Skovron discuss the poetry of and read poems from Ron Pretty's last collection of poetry, 101 POEMS. The collection contains poems from Ron Pretty's earlier collections and chapbooks, plus a selection of new poems, and is published by Pitt Street Poetry. Friend and poet Peter Frankis, who launched 101 POEMS in 2022,  ..read more

In today's show, we play a recording of Castlemaine poet, Rachael Wenona Guy reading live at Chamber Poets on 9 March . At the very end, there may be a special treat by the resident band Black Forest Smoke.To purchase Rachael's collection "The Hungry Air" go to: https://walleahpress.com.au/bookshop/product/guy-rachael-poetry-the-hungry-air/To find out more about Chamber Poets, find their facebook group here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/160882430777282 ..read more

Di Cousens talks to Wiradjuri poet, Jeanine Leane, about her new book, Gawimarra Gathering. This is the second part in a two part series ..read more