Petard is a word that survives in the modern world entirely in the expression hoist with his own petard, which means someone fails because of their own plans or because of their own deviousness. It is usually understood that its literal meaning is to be blown up with your own bomb. But there is a far more comical interpretation.…

Janice Bostok…

Cool poetry exhibition City Wears 11 is embedded in Newtown as part of the Sydney Fringe.

Artists use the medium of digital art to open up real and imagined spaces where the social, political and the personal can be explored. 11 poets will exhibit their wears along King Street, Newtown.…

Sydney Poetry has a tumblr sydneypoetry.tumblr.com and we're looking for someone to join the team as tumblr editor.

What you must have is a particular love of reading Australian poetry.

You may already have your own tumblr and you most likely use…

Bernard William…

Ed: A ball calling for a very big foot.

Now, while the Rugby World Cup is dominating the world’s sporting news, we must use the opportunity to wrest back the word football from our soccer rivals. Soccer (Association…