The pandani graze where they’ve scattered, mid-step in buttongrass, necks wrapped against the cold. Torsos a brief illusion. We sit listening to their chatter. Centuries-old migrations woven through the slow-tumbled...
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Venie Prize Year: 2022
Clear and Ancient Shadow by Danielle Baldock
Long through time we have known you Our hearts beating fast against yours For you the slow pulsing beat Of land and mountain and stone goes on Slow but sure,...
Read MoreManna Ash by Stephanie Powell
the manna ash is weeping sugar a tart nest, almost honey. from a balcony in the city its flowers appear only just thicker than dust. from up here it is...
Read MoreBogong – a Lament by Sue Aldred
In December 2021 the ICUN declared the Bogong Moth (Agrotis infusa) a threatened species (along with 123 other members of our Australian wildlife family) Millions upon millions they came, ...
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We have our own die-back bark-ringed skin telomeres...
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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