Remembering Australian poets from Sydney and New South Wales. These stories are treasured memorials. We publish them to honour a life as well as to inform community of their lives that made them prominent locally, nationally and worldwide.
Editor Adam Aitken is a Sydney-based poet and teacher. His last book was Archipelago (Vagabond Press).
Email address: AAitken@poetrysydney.org
Nicolette Stasko I heard the sad news today that Australian-American poet, non-fiction writer, editor and novelist Nicolette Stasko died on Christmas Day 2021, after a
The Australian writer Kate Jennings died in New York on 1 May 2021. She was born in Temora in western NSW in 1948, and grew
Antigone Kefala (1931 – 2022) Antigone Kefala was a writer of poetry, fiction and memoir. Over the last fifty years from 1973, she published five
Photograph by Juno Gemes. All rights reserved. Vale, Robert Adamson (1943 – 2022) Devin Johnston, Flood Editions Robert Adamson (17 May 1943–16 December 2022)
Jill McKeowen (1959 – 2022) Jean Kent Words in quotation marks are from poems in Sunday Morning, Here (Flying Islands, 2022), as is the poem
John Egan Photograph courtesy of Ginninderra Press. All rights reserved. Brenda Eldridge, Ginninderra Press The Light The lighthouse throws warning beams, sweeps the sea