Remember that they razed the Standing Stones, Remember that they scarred the Sacred Sites, Shackled the Ground and the Tides, Poisoned the Bramble Cay and the Melomys. And so I...
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Venie Prize Year: 2019
A Heart Like This by Kristen Lang
River we’re on – so much upstream, so much drag-pull-heave, water still upland, all cow and cow feed, almond trees, cotton and rice seeds, all you and me, each day:...
Read MoreThe Poem After Forests by A. Frances Johnson
Take the Wikipedia entries for ‘forest’ and ‘water’ and change the tense: forests are to forests were; water is to water was. Relieve yourself of the pressure of time; the poem forgets/forgot ruminants, rockfaces and oceans. Never...
Read MoreGreengage plums in preston by Kiara Lindsay
it’s taken us four months to work out what type of fruit our tree will bear they will be greengage plums they’re not ripe yet so I bought one at...
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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