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25.01.2022 Join Atlas Obscura and Janaka Stucky for a virtual evening of poetry, performance and conversation. Stucky is a two-time National Haiku Champion and the author of four poetry collections including his latest, Ascend Ascend. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications such as The Huffington Post and Poetry Foundationand has been profiled in The Believer, Vice, and BOMB Magazine. This promises to be an evening full of deep insights and powerful performance. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ascend-ascend-a-poetic-perform

25.01.2022 Get your writing on with an at-home residency. Expressions of interest close 20 September!

23.01.2022 I read a handful of Shastra Deo's #poems from her work The Agonist this morning. They are nothing short of gorgeous. From the publisher's site: "Exploring the languages of anatomy, etymology and incantation, these poems spark conversations about fracture and repair, energy, love and danger." #books #reading #poetry #language #writing

23.01.2022 Tomorrow is the day! Join us right here on Facebook Live at 2:30 pm for the announcement of our Poetry Takeover Challenge winners. History Trust of South Australia's CEO Greg Mackie will be on hand to announce the winners of the panel judging and People's Choice Awards.... Don't miss it! Wednesday 17 June at 2:30 pm.

20.01.2022 Curated by friend of the Poetry Takeover Manal Younus, the celebrated Eritrean storyteller who now calls South Australia home, the Words Without Borders online event showcases the talents and stories of brilliant poets from across the country. Watch now at the Wheeler Centre site: https://www.wheelercentre.com//words-without-borders-an-ev

20.01.2022 As part of this year’s South Australia's History Festival, The History Trust of South Australia launched a project designed to engage young people, share their ...voices, and cast new light on museum objects. The History Festival Poetry Takeover invited young people to draw on objects from museum collections to create poems that explore the theme of change. Want to know more about it? Check out The History Trust's latest blog post. https://medium.com//museum-poetry-during-a-pandemic-47d7e9

20.01.2022 New verses, hot off the press for your reading pleasure. Guwayu features poetry in 12 First Nations languages!

18.01.2022 First Place in the Years 9-11 category goes to "P.K. Gum" by Grace in year 9. Enjoyed as a staple since 1848, The irresistible flavor, The minty freshness tops what you just ate,... Shared between friends as a favour. It hides things under its smell. so sweet, Masks the smell of a cigarette, The addiction you were meant to defeat, But sadly cant help with a future of debt. Offers a helping hand on your first date, Perfect breath and confidence, before the big kiss. Unfortunately not a mind-reader to find a soulmate, But it does carry weight- fitting in with the gang is bliss. At the end of my life which is short but sweet, I am stuck under a table or replaced in a beat, It's a hard life being a piece of gum. Image: Wrigleys PK Gum, Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum, Kangaroo Island https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

18.01.2022 A massive thank you to Wakefield Press for their support of the Poetry Takeover. Their generous book bundle donation was shared among our People's Choice winners. Here's a list of the great YA titles: - Making Friends with Alice Dyson and Taking Down Evelyn Tait by Poppy Nwosu - Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold - Otherwise Known as Pig by Catch Tilly... - Snow by Gina Inverarity - The Girl with the Gold Bikini by Lisa Walker If you're interested in these titles for the young reader in your life, you can find the bundle on the Wakefield Press site: https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php

18.01.2022 Theres no need to consider poetry as exclusive to literary types, Kim told Seoul&. If anything, literature needs to remain close to us in our day-to-day lives. On a post-it note, a napkin, a slip of paper tucked into a newspaper...where could you leave a small poem to brighten someone's day? #poetryinthewild

16.01.2022 Poetry Takeover 2020: Share your thoughts! Despite the mighty obstacle of COVID-19, our inaugural History Festival Poetry Takeover was a great success. Were reaching out to ask for your feedback about the Poetry Takeover to help us make it an even bigger and better event next year. Were eager to learn about what you thought worked and what we can improve.... To help us get a jump on our planning for next year's History Festival, we ask that you complete the survey by Tuesday, 4 August. It takes just a few minutes and will help us better connect students with community galleries and museums. If you have any questions about the survey or if you have any trouble with the link, please reply to this message. Thanks again for taking part and taking over! We look forward to hearing from you. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PT2020Community

16.01.2022 This well-loved Teddy inspired two Honourable Mention poems in the Years 7-8 category. First up is "I clung onto you" by Brooklyn in Year 7. I clung onto you at night, I clung onto you when I was afraid I clung onto you when I was joyful,... I clung onto you when I was sad, I clung onto you when I was mad, and things got bad. You were my only friend, when the bombs boomed and tears trickled down my cheeks, I clung onto you. When I had nobody I clung onto you, And even when I found somebody new I still clung onto you. Image: Teddy bear, Migration Museum https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

16.01.2022 Our Second Place winner in Years 7-8 is "Starry Night" by Elsie in year 7. Shadows fall across the hills, Covering the light. The swirly, curly milky way,... Stretches across the sky. Darkness shimmers across the roofs. Yet hope is still there, waiting to be unleashed. A glint of happiness, shines upon our eyes, like an angel granting wishes, as the stars glimmer silently. The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889. MOMA The Museum of Modern Art https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

15.01.2022 The Red Dirt Poetry Festival is going digital this year! Brought to you from the heart of Australia with performers and poets from all over the country and the world. Explore the program and be inspired! https://www.reddirtpoetryfestival.com/

14.01.2022 Time for a closer look at each of our winning poems in the judging and People's Choice categories. Let's start with our Year 4-6 First Place winner Maisie in year 5 with her poem "Memories": The mountains flow like a colourful river,... The pebbles scatter in the long dry grass, The trees are magic with a green like glimmer, This beautiful land used to be ours, How could you, how could you they used to scream, When they locked their children behind bars, The people stole everything, they are so mean, The mountains, the pebbles, the magic trees, Are only memories blown away in the breeze. Image: Ghost gum, Central Australia, 1956. Albert Namatjira, Western Aranda people, Northern Territory, 1902 1959. Watercolour on paper. Art Gallery of South Australia https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

14.01.2022 Voting for the People's Choice Award closes Monday 15 June so what are you waiting for? Show our young poets some love and vote for your faves on the Poetry Takeover website: https://poetrytakeover.com.au We'll be announcing the judges' selections and the People's Choice Award winners on Wednesday 17 June right here on Facebook Live. Join us at 2:30 pm as History Trust of South Australia CEO Greg Mackie congratulates the winners.

13.01.2022 Finally, Honourable Mention for Years 9-11 goes to "Lifecycle" by Caitlyn in year 11. I do look quite the gentleman, standing tall before the mirror, with hair combed stiff and shining, brand-new cufflinks.... It is only a shame that at this age no perfect physiognomy nor well-trimmed clothing can actually be beauty, but merely a measurable, competitive resource towards a most inevitable marriage, devoid completely of love. The real beauty of childhood has slipped through my fingers. No more playing, no more freedom; I must pass down this terrible responsibility to a being whom I will ruin with expectations and be envious of for as long as I live. And soon my face will wilt with wrinkles and become dark and gray with exhaustion, as I work for a family I must convince myself to love, continuing through life only out of obligation and an inexplicable need to see if my child will be less disappointing than I. And when Death kisses my blinded eyes shut, I will have achieved nothing of personal value; having devoted myself wholly to what the world has expected of me, unable, in the time I have been gifted, to have made any important impact Image: Stud box, History Trust of South Australia https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

12.01.2022 New poetry-based initiative from Adelaide Festival Centre: 'OUR WORDS' is a collection of original poems by First Nations poets from across the country, recorded and preserved for presentation online and also appearing as part of the 'Celebrating OUR MOB 2020' exhibition at Adelaide Festival Centre. With new videos shared weekly, these works achieve what a written collection could not - transmitting the words of these extraordinary writers in their own voice and performance.

11.01.2022 New video! This one is about finding inspiration for your writing. Enjoy https://youtu.be/kaL7BVfJIiY

11.01.2022 We're going LIVE! Join us this afternoon at 2:30 pm for the Poetry Takeover Challenge Awards. Our CEO Greg Mackie will announce our judging panel's top selections as well as the People's Choice winners.... Set two alarms and have your afternoon tea with us here on Facebook Live at 2:30 pm.

11.01.2022 The wait is almost over! Join us this afternoon on at 2:30 on Facebook Live for the Poetry Takeover Challenge award announcement. History Trust of South Australia's CEO Greg Mackie will be on hand to congratulate all the winners in our judging and People's Choice categories. Set an alarm and be sure to tune in at 2:30 today.

11.01.2022 Explore eight experimental poetry collections that inspired Ellen van Neerven's latest collection. Sydney Writers Festival shares van Neerven's curated list.

10.01.2022 If you or someone you know has lived experience of mental illness, Mindshare wants your writing. The online mental health platform is accepting submissions from emerging and established authors for its annual poetry and creative writing competition. Click through for criteria and entry details:

09.01.2022 Joey in year 5 was a Merit winner in the Years 4-6 category with his poem "Ol' Mate Spikey". Ol Mate Spikey. Wind blowing through the dusty plains,... Out comes Ol Mate Spikey. Looking around with his baby eyes, Cant find mother.. or papa. Waiting, waiting some more, Loss breaking his heart, Cant even remember what happiness can be, As he looks hoping for euphoria. Couldnt ever fix a hole like that, When your power is so small. As time keeps running, so does ol Mate Spikey. Growing, looking, never stopping. Less spikes harder to walk, But persistence is with him. When he looks there are reminders of his early life, Until we sleep. Once he stops he cant start again. Lifted up to the heavens. Running up the stairway, He finally finds the life he ever wanted. All he needs now is peace for the world, Hoping so much for us to get along. Why cant we? (inspired by a true story) Image: Echidna c.2000. Yvonne Koolmatrie, Ngarrindjeri people, South Australia, 1944. spiny-headed sedge (Cyperus gymnocaulos) and echidna quills Art Gallery of South Australia https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

08.01.2022 The Years 9-11 Merit winner is "I Love My Home" by Lucy in year 9. I love my home, The first breath of fresh air as I walk out the door for school, the children flooding the halls with laughter now,... the streets are flooded by the enemy. I love my home, the taste of mothers butchteln warms my mouth it crumbles over me just like my city. I love my home, the feeling of family, the feeling of love, of freedom, of safety. Now, its getting darker and harder to breathe. I love my home, my birthdays filled with surprises balloons popping now, those balloons are threats plummeting from the sky. My mutti and baba bought me a German train this year they try to protect me but I know this is a gift from the enemy. I love my home, where I used to be free now, I am trapped the Jewish are being killed, we are like hosts to the German parasites. I love my home, but now I have to leave, bringing nothing but my train, a harsh reminder of the enemy. Image: Toy Train, c. 1930s, Migration Museum https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

07.01.2022 Winner's Announcement! The Blake Poetry Prize challenges Australian poets to explore the spiritual and religious in a new work of 100 lines or less. This year..., we received over 400 entries, with a short list of eight poems! Congratulations to the eight shortlisted poets: History of Sadness: Louise Carter; On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record: Judith Crispin; X + Dave Drayton; Sweeter than Honey: Heather Ellyard; Dont Call Us Dirty: Lou Garcia-Dolnik; Parental Guidance: Julie Manning; The Rose Noir Poem 5- the Girl in the Souk: Michael Moon; Waterlines to a Kingfisher: Peter Ramm The Blake Poetry Prize is a program of Liverpool City Council Australia and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Supported by WestWords who coordinate the judging process.

06.01.2022 Voting for the People's Choice Award closes today Monday 15 June! So what are you waiting for? This is your last chance to show our young poets some love and vote for your faves on the Poetry Takeover website: https://poetrytakeover.com.au We'll be announcing the judges' selections and the People's Choice Award winners on Wednesday 17 June right here on Facebook Live. Join us at 2:30 pm as History Trust of South Australia CEO Greg Mackie congratulates the winners.

06.01.2022 Taking out First Place and People's Choice for the Years 7-8 category is "All That I Have" by Lauren in year 7. A memory of a time long gone, in which I stood by my beloved blossom tree. I would run around the field where Majesty no longer stands. I would climb her and imagine I was on a mighty ship, bound on a voyage.... Those days I treasure, The happy days, I call them now, before it began. Before the running, before the hiding, Before the fear that will now forever live inside me. Before I would leave my home, my family, my country for safety, Before the only person I would have was me, Before I would experience the worst place on earth. Before I would escape, against all odds, Before HE would destroy my world. Those days are all I have now, The smiles I used to wear, Back when I used to live, As now I just exist. I know that life will never be like that again, I will never again know true happiness. I still cling to those memories, All that I have. Image: Woman and blossom tree Capt. Frank Hurley, 1935. History Trust of South Australia https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

05.01.2022 From Spoken Word SA: Here it finally is poetry people. After all the closures and restrictions you can now experience live 'For the Love of Adelaide'. This event is a culmination of all the hard yards put in by 'Adelaide City Libraries Poet in Residence' Deb Stewart and those who attended and interacted at her workshops.

05.01.2022 Finally in the Years 4-6 category is our People's Choice winner Dahlia in year 4 with "Dodo". Boom! I could hear it. The sound like a thousand rainstorms. I ran as fast as a wolf pounces on its prey.... Silently, as a panicking dodo; me. The sound was furious. Screeches deafening. I ran, the sounds started to fade. I keep going. The more I run, the more I realise that my heart was thumping like a dart hitting a drum. Darkness spreads. I thought I was safe. That one last boom I heard was something that I'd never experienced before. The dodo, is no more. Image: Reconstruction of a Dodo, Karl Otto Götz, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

05.01.2022 A powerful outpouring of feelings by friend of the Poetry Takeover Manal Younus.

05.01.2022 Tomorrow is the day! Join us here on Facebook Live at 2:30 pm for Poetry Takeover Challenge award ceremony. History Trust of South Australia's CEO Greg Mackie will present the awards for the winners of our judging and People's Choice selections. Don't miss it!

05.01.2022 Varuna the Writers' House has opened applications for its 2021 Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers. Unpublished and published Indigenous writer...s are invited to apply for a one-week residency at Varuna, in the Blue Mountains of NSW with their fiction, narrative non-fiction, poetry, children's books, graphic novels, dramatic/screenwriting, writing for radio, translation, essays or short fiction. See more

04.01.2022 The second Honourable Mention in the Years 7-8 category is "Sorry Oliver" by Hannah in Year 7. Silly, smiley you bring light to my day Oscar you are my one and only as play Right to left, we swing side to side... Riches are not what I need, all I need is you on my ride Young and childish games are what we play Only if time would stay the same Lonely, lifeless all the light is gone I've grown up, now I work all day Visibly happy but not inside Eternity, this will never end in time Riches are now what I need, old and miserable work is what I do. Image: Teddy bear, Migration Museum https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

04.01.2022 Our Second Place winner in the Years 9-11 category is "Gladys Sym Choon" by Anneliese in year 9. 'White Australia' they say Those are the ones who throw the stones Shattering my pride along with the glass... Splintering the wooden frame and fragile peace Those are the ones who light the match and watch the building burn I share my country, my silk, my satin, my gold "Too exotic" they say Too different They don't share They dictate and humiliate Squashing me and my dreams Like trampled blossoms underfoot But once they take a closer look they see the determination it took to weave my future to preserve my past Now my shoes fascinate, My flowing emerald silk is craved My shoes My dancing shoes From derision to desire A tiptoeing trailblazer Image: Green Satin Shoes, c. 1950s Migration Museum. https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

04.01.2022 Writers SA has created a fantastic roundup of literary and storytelling events celebrating NAIDOC week 2020: Always Was, Always Will Be.

03.01.2022 Coming up on 3 October: The Be Natural Poetry Slam, organised by Spoken Word SA - South Australia and Dymocks Adelaide, will bring spoken word performances of original works to Adelaide as part of Nature Festival. Two minutes, no props, costumes or music. Just you,... your breath and your words. See more

03.01.2022 Our Second Place winner in the Years 4-6 category is "Not There" by Jenna in year 5: Mother and I were standing at the station, Waiting for father to return from the war. I was as excited as a baby bird waiting for its mother.... The train came into view, I ran up and down the platform, Searching for him, Desperate. He wasnt there. I felt worry in the pit of my stomach. I think mother did too. She started crying, Head in her hands, Tears dripping onto her floral dress. Maybe Father missed the train. Maybe he would be on the next train. I didnt know. All I knew was that he was not there. Image: Adelaide Railway Station, c. 1890s, History Trust of South Australia GN00318 https://poetrytakeover.com.au/poetry-takeover-winners/

03.01.2022 A new universe of Poetry Object has arrived! Two more sleeps until we reveal the winners of Poetry Object 2020! Tune into our YouTube Live from 11am, Thursday 2...0 August to catch the announcement! Hosted by David Stavanger and featuring readings from some special Poetry Object poets! Red Room Poetry Object is Australasias largest free poetry-writing competition for young people and their teachers. Poetry Object ignites imaginations by inviting poems inspired by treasured, curious, everyday, extraordinary, interplanetary, or talismanic objects.

01.01.2022 Sit back and sink into the words of First Nations poets Ali Cobby Eckermann, Lorna Munro, Natalie Harkin, Jenny Munro, Alexis West, Malika Munro, and Maggie Walsh as they perform together at the 2014 Sydney Writers Festival. https://youtu.be/ZqfzbAzXz_8

01.01.2022 Heat 4 of the Australian Poetry Slam 2020 this Friday, 25 September at the State Library. Click through for details