• The holy creed of Carbonus Rex

    Roger Chao     |      September 17, 2024

    65 million years ago, a natural act wiped out the dinosaurs, but today it’s the dinosaurs of the fossil fuel industry who imperil life on Earth.

  • A nation of apologies

    Roger Chao     |      September 16, 2024

    A lyrical perspective on the fraught political and constitutional issue of Aboriginal rights in this country.

  • The Siren’s Call

    Roger Chao     |      July 17, 2024

    These are difficult times but assuming things will go from bad to worse is a surefire way to make that happen. The future is ours to shape, and envisioning a brighter future is the first and most important step towards achieving it.

  • Not in my name

    Roger Chao     |      April 25, 2024

    The appalling events in Bondi Junction have given us all pause for thought in recent days, in a world where such horrors are all too common.

  • The silent truth

    Roger Chao     |      April 20, 2024

    Conflict has marred the whole of human history, but the hope for peace is everlasting in the human imagination. In a world riven by war from Ukraine to Israel, Yemen to Mayanmar, we should all remember our common humanity and the healing power of art.

  • Battle cry of the unbowed

    Roger Chao     |      November 30, 2023

    Young Australian writer Roger Chao offers an impassioned plea for tolerance and social justice in lyric form.

  • Echoes of Louise

    Amy Cannon     |      October 19, 2023

    Literary critics who can only view art through a political lens disdained the late Louise Glück for writing intensely personal poetry, but because of this, rather than despite it, her luminous and fiercely intelligent writing will long outlive her.

  • Ariel

    Sarah Corbett     |      February 14, 2023

    Sylvia Plath left a slim body of work, but remains one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century.

  • Sir Gawain rides again

    Stephanie Trigg     |      August 28, 2021

    The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was recently reimagined as a movie, but the poem itself already has a surprisingly contemporary message about tradition, modernity and our sense of self.

  • Louise Glück wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

    Nikolai Duffy     |      October 10, 2020

    The wonderful American poet Louise Glück has won this years Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee heralded her work ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’.