In her speaking she returns to us and I, with my Not-I awake, and going about my day, walk with Earth behind my lids, two by two, and breathing thus,...
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Venie Prize Year: 2018
Nature is a Misreading by Michael Farrell
It’s 10am. He’s already talked to the birds and flowers If to be human is to be baroque, he would like to feel more involved, or more complex. Originality is...
Read MoreThe Dingo Poem by JP Quinton
“So the plan is the dingoes wipe out goats then we come back and humanely shoot those dingoes because they’ll have tracking collars so we can find where they go....
Read MorePlastic Free July by Connor Weightman
bass strait roaring. or i imagine them calling, a pod of tankers well wishing me home from the shops. sliding between twelve thousand years like cigarettes flattened amongst parked umbrages....
Read MoreThree Teared Wedding Cake by Dennis Garvey
Escape that bitumen travel until travel to where You see a woman (man) scapes before you the man (woman) may not claim to being poets Girl – Boy – leaves...
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Community Bushfire Forum
Designed for households seeking practical, forward-thinking bushfire preparation, this event brings together a diverse lineup of guest speakers. Topics will span how houses burn, bushfire resilient landscape design and management, household and community response planning and post disaster resilience and reintegration. More info and tickets here.

2026 Venie Prize winner
Here is what judge Peter O’Mara had to say about all of the poems entered in this year’s Venie Prize: In such a conjectural, estranged times, this year’s entries arrived, not coincidentally, from a multifarious array of the environmental poetry index — the polemical, the elegiac, the embodied, the observed, the incidental, the expansive, the

2024 Venie Prize winner
Congratulations to Isabella G. Mead for writing the winning poem of the 2024 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, Melt Ice. Here is what judge Tim Loveday had to say about the poem: Melt Ice is a work that speaks back to our colonial inheritance with an acute and painful awareness of how our complicity as