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Fake, Tokyo Nostalgia 10/40 (2010) Ryota Hisanabe
Fake, Tokyo Nostalgia 10/40 (2010) Ryota Hisanabe

Robyn Rowland and Anne Casey—reading at Gleebooks, Sydney

Sunday 15th February starting 3:00pm for 3:30pm Poetic Witness: Personal and Political On Steep Curve by Robyn Rowland When her father, Norm Rowland OAM is almost 100, Robyn returns from Ireland. Initially companion, then carer during covid, she lives with him in the house he built 65 years before. Their relationship grows through physical and emotional challenges, anger, frustration, grief and love. Poems for Norm from previous years are interwoven here. Heartbreaking and tender, a…

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Australian Poetry Book Publishers 2026

Poetry Sydney is an independent literary organisation committed to a presence for poetry in our culture. The Australian Poetry Publishers directory is a portal for poets to have their poems published, to encourage Australian poetry to be purchased and to support Australian Poetry Publishers in enabling poets to have the opportunity to be published. Publishers on this list are those who publish poetry within Australia.

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Vale Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 1934–2025

Vale Emeritus Professor Christopher Wallace-Crabbe AM FAHA 1934 – 2025 Chris was Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre of the University of Melbourne, of which he was a founding director. During his long and distinguished career, he was a Harkness Fellow at Yale University, and the Harvard University Chair of Visiting Professor of Australian Studies. In 2011, Chris was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to…

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Australian arts on the internet in 2025

Australian Poetry The past year has celebrated established mastery and urgent new voices, with David Brooks claiming the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. The sector also saw the release of the Best of Australian Poems 2025 anthology and a vibrant Poetry Month program fostering community engagement. Australian Painters The 2025 awards season saw Julie Fragar and Jude Rae recognised for their exceptional portraiture and landscape work respectively. Major institutions also celebrated…

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Susan Wald — making monotypes

Majoring in Painting at Victoria College, Prahran 1989-91 I enrolled in printmaking as an elective. From the Head of Printmaking, John Scurry and lecturer Simon Cooper, I learnt different techniques discovering that this was a medium I could experiment with and one that could inform and feed into my painting. I developed a love of the process and later began to concentrate mainly on monotypes; a combination of drawing, painting…

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Ryota Hisanabe

Ryota Hisanabe is an Australian-Japanese photographer living in Spain. I’ve started to take photography since I was eleven or twelve years old, influenced by record jackets in the 90’s in Japan. It becomes more serious/passionate after entering a university by studying industrial design. German photography impressed me a lot at the study, and now and then their style is always behind my photography ideas. I love humans but, at the…

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