Artwork: She Prefers Fires, 2008, Ink and cotton on fine art paper, Tamryn Bennett, www.tamrynbennett.com

Just yesterday I got hold of the program for the Poetry and the Contemporary Conference to be held in the Victorian…

From the weekly email to members

This week there's a deluge of opportunities closing including three 'city' gigs: …

• Justin Lowe of Bluepepper is calling for…

• Chair of Australian Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe (pictured)…

First an apology for the unicorn. Do not be alarmed. You have not inadvertently arrived at a site devoted to unicorns. This is a site for poetry, and this is a post about a post on a poem for a unicorn. Confused? Neither are we! And there is no cause for concern.

Now on with apologising to unicorns.

You may recall the…

On Friday last week sydneypoetry.com passed an exciting milestone – our 300th member joined. Welcome again Anna B Rasztabiga. Since Friday six more people have joined so we're on our way to 400.  Welcome again, of course, to all…

What we noticed while noodling about on the internets this week...

• David Prater documents the dialogue between Korean and Australian poets for Cordite 35.…

• Australian Poetry launches Sotto , a "monthly online members-only collection of interesting articles, commentary and poetry from contributors across the country."…

In my day job I help businesses with their website strategy – I'm what's called an information architect. That's right, have a good laugh.

Anyway, one of the things I do is keep an eye on website statistics to see how sites are performing. This being a member site I thought it might be of interest to y'all to have a sneaky peak at the monthly…

Adam Ford has put out another poetry mixtape of awesome, and I just want to pinch his cheeks for coming up with the idea.

Being the 8th in an itinerant series of lists of poetry that I found online and brought home to love and hug and call George…

Poets included in this month's tape are MC Allan, Cate Kennedy, John Ashbery (an…

Kerry Leves

1948…