In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “wild reciter”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists. From the ...

Still, while Spider-Verse was loaded with superheroes, Rothman thinks there's definitely room to work more Spideys into the story. "Going forward, if there are more movies, I'm sure there will be ...

The recent anthology Contemporary Australian Poetry, published byPuncher & Wattmann), purports to be “both a survey, and a critical review, of Australian poetry between 1990 and the present”.

“We created an Australian Spider-Man,” Rothman said. “He showed up with the other Spiders, and he said he was 24 hours ahead, and then he glitched to death. So everyone was going to be like ...

Horne removed to Australia in 1852, and added no little in his later poems to the store of Australian verse. We shall not seek to detract from the glory of Orion by quoting from the South Sea ...

There has been a renewed push to change the lyrics of Australia’s national anthem again by adding two new, more inclusive verses. Not-for-profit group Recognition in Anthem is calling for the ...

Henry Lawson (c.1889). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. A privileged place. We turn to poetry for many of life’s significant moments. Weddings and funerals remind us that rhyming verse has ...