RIP John West
Sad news about Australian poet John WestHear his poem, The Admission

Police Poetry Calendar
Welcome to the first calendar of poems and photographs by Portland police officers, detectives, local poets and photographers [USA]: At the first meeting between the poets and police officers, Lt. Sauschuck said, 'I gotta be honest with you, Marty, if you gave me a choice between writing a poem or fighting four guys at the same time in the street out there, I'd be fighting those four guys right

The Death of Loftiness in Poetry
Robert Peake wrote: "Imagine reading some of these titles to Whitman, Keats, or Blake, and explaining that these are the titles of books of poems. The sound of their bemused, bewildered, and ultimately uncomfortable laughter is a sound that haunts our age."

The Daily Telegraph editor who brought Buddha to life
...a poet who was considered for Poet Laureate

out of the box - is nearly out
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets, edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones"