Barrina South has chosen a word from the language of her Barkindji ancestry in far western NSW — Makarra, meaning rain — for the title of her first poetry anthology, to be launched this weekend in Queanbeyan, where she lives.
An Erindale College student has won the senior secondary prize in the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards, reports HELEN MUSA.
The multi-award-winning Australian author, poet and rapper Omar Musa and the internationally renowned American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts Musa are bringing a dramatic seafaring monologue to the stage in Queanbeyan.
ACCLAIMED poet, author and performer Omar Musa will bring "alive" new poems, taking them from the page on to the stage for the first time on Thursday, February 24, at The Street Theatre.
Canberra has always been a poetic city, but a new festival puts that into upper case with the new “Poetic City Festival”.
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