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Segments: Breakfasters: What Will Having A National Poet Laureate For Australia Look Like? — Triple R 102 7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Segments: Breakfasters: What Will Having A National Poet Laureate For Australia Look Like? — Triple R 102 7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
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It s about time poetry got the boost of an Australian laureate

There’s some confusion about precisely what an Australian poet laureate will do, let alone who will get the gig.

The whole canon is being reappraised : how the #MeToo movement upended Australian poetry

Last modified on Sun 4 Apr 2021 19.40 EDT When Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, co-editors of literary magazine Overland, announced the shortlist for the magazine’s Nakata Brophy prize for Indigenous poetry last year, they received a letter of complaint. The point of contention? There were no men in the shortlist. “We only had women and nonbinary entries,” says Araluen. “And it was our biggest year [in terms of entry numbers] for the prize.” Only a few years ago, she says, female entrants to any poetry prize would have been hugely outnumbered by men – and Indigenous poets were few and far between.

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