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…

One of our members got in touch recently about how to add videos from YouTube.

Here's the step by step process using a Red Room Company video as an example (and this one's already been added here).

1. Find a video on YouTube that you'd like to share on the sydneypoetry.com site. (Don't forget to check it's not…

Poet and novelist (and sydneypoetry.com site member) David Musgrave has been shortlisted in the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards in the Fiction list. Congratulations to David. Congratulations also to Roberta Lowing, another Sydney poet and organiser of the…

From our friends at Cordite

Cordite's special thirty-fifth issue, showcases new poetry from Australia (OZ) and the Republic of Korea (KO). Over the next three months, this site will play host to a range of new works including poetry in English and Hangul, critical essays, feature articles, interviews, photo essays…

Sometimes there's so many good poetry events on I get confused about what they are, or where or when.

It's just possible I'm not alone, and so for a while now I've been planning a weekly email to members to share upcoming poetry events.

Today is that day when my dreams came true. Well, ok, I sent the email.

The email will be sent weekly mostly because…

http://youarelistening.to/ streams a hypnotising mix of police department radio over ambient electronica.

You can control the levels and when you get it just so you'll have the perfect soundtrack for composing your post-apocalyptic retro-romantic dreamscapes. You do write those, right?

If LA doesn't do it…

A few months back the Guerilla Poetry project sought ten poets to take part in a poetry take-over of the city.  Here are some of the outcomes. 

A personal favourite is 'STAY TOUCHING', and I'm sure it's not meant in the stalky…

Heat 24 just whistled in to the sydneypoetry.com mailbox. It's not a sound I'll hear again as Ivor Indyk has decided to retire the physical format (cue weeping).

As Ivor explains in his editorial:

Though there is always…

Like Overland, Island is one of the stayers amongst the literary journals and Island 123 is the latest package of quarterly awesome from across the Bass Strait.

Poets on deck in this issue are: John Kinsella, Kate Llewellyn, Yve Louis, Shari Kocher Campbell, Robyn…

Overland is one of the survivors of Australian literary journals.  How do we know that? Well this is issue #201 and you can't argue with a double-tonne.

In this issue you'll find "Afghanistan, liberalism and bigotry; creativity and labour; the art of drawing money; and much, much…

As you may be aware the Poets Union of NSW and the Australian Poetry Centre in Vic have united to become, um... Australian Poetry.  Just like Opera Australia, only it's poetry, not opera (& with no arias or dress-ups either sadly).

Anyway – Paul Kooperman of…

If I were a Poet in Residence I would relocate the family to Ettalong Caravan Park and write fetching odes with narrative and local colour – the surfers, the fishermen, the bowlers, the septic...

Well, ok that's me.

What about you... Sure your digs are pretty champ. How about those poems you write... awesome, right! Imagine now the champer and awesomer…