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Locality: Sydney, Australia

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25.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Alliteration Alliteration refers to the use of similar sounds to begin a sequence of words, e.g. spick and span, kith and kin, jump for joy.... They also make great tongue twisters! Who doesn't love 'she sells sea shells by the sea shore'?

25.01.2022 You tell 'em Leslie Knope!

24.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Dramatic monologue When the poet writes from the point of view and in the voice of a particular character.... Example: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', T. S. Eliot 'Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question Oh, do not ask, What is it? Let us go and make our visit.'

24.01.2022 Don't know what to read? We have collections compiled by guest curators. Some are poets and others are people with varied backgrounds all with a keen interest in poetry. Check them out: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/guest-collections

24.01.2022 Vale Bruce Dawe

24.01.2022 And proud of it!

23.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Alliteration Alliteration refers to the use of similar sounds to begin a sequence of words, e.g. spick and span, kith and kin, jump for joy.... They also make great tongue twisters! Who doesn't love 'she sells sea shells by the sea shore'?

22.01.2022 AZ of Australian Poetry: Judith Beveridge: born in London in 1956, she migrated with her family to Australia in 1960. Her first book The Domesticity of Giraffes (1987) was a tremendous success, winning the Dame Mary Gilmore Award, the New South Wales Premier’s Award and the Victorian Premier’s Award in 1988. Her fourth book Wolf Notes (2004) won the Victorian Premier’s Award and the Age Book of the Year Award for poetry. Poem spotlight: 'Girl on a Rooftop Flying a Kite' (ex...cerpt) 'She couldn't remember what propelled her out of the bedroom window onto the roof clutching her kite against the wind and the difficult angles, going high enough to see the sun pour down on the dazed harbour and boats forging up the river.' Read more: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/beveridge-judith

21.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Couplet Two successive lines of verse, which often rhyme.... Example: Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayer’s sake. Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.

20.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Elegy A funeral song or lament, or any poem mourning a dead person or creature, or a way of life that has passed, or any form of mortality.... Example: 'Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats', Percy Bysshe Shelley (excerpt) 'The breath whose might I have invok’d in song Descends on me; my spirit’s bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.'

20.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Assonance Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighbouring words, to create the effect of rhyme within phrases or lines of verse.... How now brown cow?

18.01.2022 Listen to Australian poets reading; PennSound hosts recordings as part of Pam Brown's 2011 anthology for Jacket2

17.01.2022 Did you know you can search for poetry using our 'Themes and Occasions' function? We have curated collections based around themes to help you find what you want to read! Find the extensive list here: https://bit.ly/31XTePm

16.01.2022 https://www.hungryhill-writing.eu/

15.01.2022 AZ of Australian Poetry: Walter Billeter: born in Switzerland in 1943, he came to Australia in 1966 and worked as a draftsman. His work has been published in Australian literary journals including 'Poetry Australia'. In 1973, he published his only poetry collection, 'Sediments of Seclusion'. Poem spotlight: 'I Threw' (excerpt)... 'I THREW my nets into the wordrinch rivers a few miles south of yesterday, fishing the past. The water shrieked about my heresy, the past slipped puietly through the mesh. I dug my roots into the stony earth of an alien country, settling for now.' Read more: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/billeter-walter

14.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Consonance The repetition of consonants, other than those at the beginning of words.... Examples: Words: Hike / bike Borrow / sorrow Slither / slather Poem: 'T was later when the summer went', Emily Dickinson 'T was later when the summer went Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home. 'T was sooner when the cricket went Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time

13.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Dramatic monologue When the poet writes from the point of view and in the voice of a particular character.... Example: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', T. S. Eliot 'Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question Oh, do not ask, What is it? Let us go and make our visit.'

12.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Couplet Two successive lines of verse, which often rhyme.... Example: Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayer’s sake. Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.

11.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Consonance The repetition of consonants, other than those at the beginning of words.... Examples: Words: Hike / bike Borrow / sorrow Slither / slather Poem: 'T was later when the summer went', Emily Dickinson 'T was later when the summer went Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home. 'T was sooner when the cricket went Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps esoteric time

11.01.2022 A lovely tribute.

10.01.2022 Get those kids writing poetry!

09.01.2022 Don't know what to read? We have collections compiled by guest curators. Some are poets and others are people with varied backgrounds all with a keen interest in poetry. Check them out: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/guest-collections

08.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Enjambement A sentence in a poem which runs on from one line to the next without a pause for punctuation.... Example: 'Endymion', John Keats 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and asleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.'

06.01.2022 One of our website's most useful functions: searching by decade. Simply click on any poem to explore more poetry from that specific point in time. Try it yourself: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/home

05.01.2022 This week's glossary term: Assonance Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighbouring words, to create the effect of rhyme within phrases or lines of verse.... How now brown cow?

03.01.2022 The birthplace of the beloved Australian poet, Orange NSW and the surrounding region celebrate Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Festival each February to coincide with his birth date on February 17, 1864. An Australian legend, his 'Waltzing Matilda' is known worldwide and what better way is there to celebrate his life and work than through a festival in the district in which he was born. To learn more about the festival and the competition being run, head to www.banjopater...sonfestival.com.au #banjopaterson #australianpoetry #banjopatersonfestival

01.01.2022 Poem of the week: 'An Idyll of Dandaloo' (excerpt) by Andrew Barton Paterson 'On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is hot,... There stands the town of Dundaloo -- A township where life's total sum Is sleep, diversified with rum. It's grass-grown streets with dust are deep, 'Twere vain endeavou to express The dreamless silence of its sleep, Its wide, expansive drundenness. The yearly races mostly drew A lively crowd to Dundaloo.' Read the rest: https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au//an-idyll-of-dandaloo-000