IPSI - International Poetry Studies Institute

02/04/2024

Calling all poets.

The 2024 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize is live, and humming along nicely. Details, T&C and entry portal are at https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/vcpoetryprize
*Overall winner: $15,000
*International winner (for a poet living in an economically developing nation): $5,000
*Runner-up: $5,000
Longlist entries will be published in a beautiful anthology.

The wonderful critic Michelle Borzi (Aust) and the wonderful poet James Cherry (USA) are this year's judges.

Entries close *14 July 2024*

The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize has been offered since 2014. On behalf of the University, this is administered by the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design.

02/04/2024

And another call for all poets!
The University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize, funded by the Faculty of Health, is open now for entries. Information, T&C and entry portal are in the link below.
The judges will be looking for interest, innovation, experimentation, or whatever motivates you, in poems that explore the issue of health and illness, of living well and living with the bodies we inhabit.
Winner: $3000
Runner up: $1000
Entries close *14 July 2024*

The University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize aims to inspire others through poetry to consider the journey to live life well. The poem may be focused on mental or physical health, and can investigate what living life well means. This may include barriers to living a well life, promoting a ...

18/01/2024

I have the University of Canberra and the Axon journal to thank for nudging my Nigel Kennedy book towards reality!

Axon: Creative Explorations is a free online journal that publishes writing and images that express or are about creativity and the creative process.

03/04/2023

University of Canberra is very excited to announce its judges for the Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize:

Mani Rao and Tony Barnstone!

Mani Rao's poems have been published in Meanjin, Cordite, Takahe, Printout, Iowa Review, Wasafiri, Indian Literature, TInfish, Zoland Poetry, Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and other journals and anthologies. Her books include Sing to Me (Recent Work Press) and Echolocation (Math Paper Press).

Tony Barnstone teaches at Whittier College and is the author of 21 books, a tarot deck and a music CD. His books of poetry include Pulp Sonnets; Beast in the Apartment; Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki; The Golem of Los Angeles; Sad Jazz: Sonnets; and Impure. He is also a translator or co-translator of world literature, primarily Chinese but also Spanish and Urdu. His awards include: The Poets Prize, the Strokestown International Prize, the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, The John Ciardi Prize, The Benjamin Saltman Award, and fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and California Arts Council. He has also co-edited the anthologies Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the United States; Dead and Undead Poems; and Monster Verse. His new publications are a co-translation from the Urdu, Faces Hidden in the Dust: Selected Ghazals of Ghalib and a creativity tool, The Radiant Tarot: Pathway to Creativity. He is currently working on a libretto for an opera. His website is https://www.whittier.edu/academics/english/barnstone.

The prize closes the 30th of June. For more information:

https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/vcpoetryprize

03/04/2023

08/02/2023

An excellent prize for a single unpublished poem. Log in, have a look, pass on the word.

The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize has been offered annually since 2014. On behalf of the University, this is administered by the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design.

23/12/2020

Axon: Creative Explorations is a free online journal that publishes writing and images that express or are about creativity and the creative process.

04/09/2020

Many poets are familiar with the excellent UK-based Arvon writing courses and retreats. In the age of Covid, the good people of Arvon are going virtual. Please follow the link below for information about a virtual retreat, focusing on prose poetry, to be held in October.

What is prose poetry? Why is it resurfacing now as a popular mode of writing? What are the ways into writing in this innovative form? We will cover topics such as starting points for the prose poem and the notoriously tricky subject of editing. By discussing various historical and contemporary examp...

15/07/2020

Poetry on the Move 2020 update:
Owen Bullock lightens the mood with 'Larry, Barry' - a thing he describes as "a very silly poem".

It took multiple listens to get through the whole poem because it just had us in stitches. Head over to Well-Known Corners on the Poetry on the Move website to catch the fun!

https://www.poetryonthemove.net/well-known-corners

15/07/2020

Poetry on the Move 2020 update: Settle in with a fresh dispatch from poet in residence, Yeow Kai Chai.

https://www.poetryonthemove.net/post/video-reading-yeow-kai-chai

27/06/2020