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Celebrating the poetry of jacarandas
Danebank Anglican School for Girls in Hurstville contributed poems to the Herald's poetry prize which they wrote under the school's jacaranda tree. Near the tree, they threw small bits of purple paper into the air to emulate the flowers of the jacaranda floating to the ground.
Michael Ondaatje’s latest work is in praise of long love and experience
The writer’s first collection of poetry in more than 25 years replaces the idea of ageing as diminution with a blazing and sensual testament to what is held close.
- by Felicity Plunkett
Michael Ondaatje’s ‘little fragments’ that lead to prize-winning work
The award-winning novelist says he’s writing only poetry at the moment and his new collection has an ‘elegiac tone’.
- by JP O'Malley
This festival nurtured a generation of talent. Now it’s on life support
For two decades the National Young Writers’ Festival has been a crucible for Australian literary talent, but its future is now in doubt.
- by Nell Geraets
The writing that shows the business of poetry for Seamus Heaney
The Nobel laureate for literature’s correspondence reveals much about how he worked and the difficulties of his situation as Ireland’s greatest modern poet.
- by Gregory Day
Girlhood, ’90s TV and Britney Spears converge in poet Kate Middleton’s new book
Television explores how screen-time gets under our collective and individual skins.
- by Brooke Boland
How two poets approach their struggles with colonisation and racism
Reading Jeanine Leane and Sara M Saleh’s work together illuminates intriguing mutual concerns.
- by Lyn McCredden
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