Flying Islands Poetry Community Inc

06/09/2026

Congratulations Viscount Kit Kelen ! 🎉

Our immense congratulations go to Kit Kelen, the inaugural Southerly Poetry Prize winner!

Kit will receive a cash prize of $2000 AUD, with his winning poem published in Southerly 81.1 in October 2026. Along with all shortlisted entries, “Now ● Here ● This” will also be published in Southerly online.

10/08/2026

📣 Congratulations to the winners of the Flying Islands 2026 Poetry Manuscript Prize!

Winner - Nigel Featherstone for Blood Muscle
Second Place - Lize Du Toit for Landscape with Woman and Snake
Third Place - Lorraine Gibson for The Thickness of Life

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The top three winners will be published in the next set of the Flying Islands poetry books for 2027.

Thank you to all participants and shortlisted poets! ⭐

27/07/2026

👉We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Flying Islands 2026 Poetry Manuscript Prize!

Congratulations to the shortlisted poets and thank you to all who submitted their entries. 👏🎉

The recipients of the top three prizes will be announced in August.

Visit our website www.flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au for more details.

10/07/2026

Congratulations to Viscount Kit Kelen for being shortlisted 🎉

We are delighted to announce the shortlist of the inaugural Southerly Poetry Prize. Our immense congratulations to all. We look forward to announcing the winner on the 10th of August.

Thank you to all the poets who shared their work with us.

10/07/2026

The women-centred poems in Dael Allison's Blimmin’ Wimmin are a femage to artists, writers, mothers, animals and plants, real and imagined, that inspire by their acts, what they create and their presence on the planet.

📌 All of these wonderful new books are available on the day and in our website
https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/?srsltid=AfmBOorxQg6tdC85Y07O6CKRLElaNVZkT7WB8uOBbrFzU2_ZTtQTYTIi

👉 Food of Love by Kit Kelen
👉 Thin Reed Throat by Damien Becker
👉 Screaming and Euphoria by Gillian Rubinstein
👉 Blimmin' Wimmin by Dael Allison
👉 Still Alive in Dubbo by David Grant Lloyd
👉 The Travelling Soul edited by Josh Stenberg & Lap Lam
👉 New Ordinance for the Dead by Ronald Araña Atilano

10/07/2026

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29/05/2026

Book Reviews, Poetry Reviews Thin Reed Throat by Damien Becker May 25, 2026 By Paris Rosemont From a launch speech delivered at Addi Road Writers’ Festival 16 May 2026 Thin Reed Throat by Damien Becker Flying Island Books Pocket Poet Series ISBN: 9781763678187, 84 pages, Jan 2026, paperback It’s...

29/05/2026

Thank you Rochford Street Review and Mark Mahemoff for Ron Atilano's ‘New Ordinance for the Dead’ review.

"What I prize in both these poems and many others in the volume is the blending of the universal and the local."

Read the complete review:

Much of Ron’s work has this “carved in granite quality.” Not only because of the strength of its imagery but also its conviction.

23/05/2026

Scenes from the Flying Islands 2026 Poetry Books Sydney launch at the Stirrup Gallery during the Addi Road Writers Festival ( thanks to Addi Road Community Organisation) last Saturday.

Thank you all for coming! 🙏🙏🙏

📌 All of these wonderful new books are available in our website
https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/?srsltid=AfmBOorxQg6tdC85Y07O6CKRLElaNVZkT7WB8uOBbrFzU2_ZTtQTYTIi

👉 Food of Love by Kit Kelen
👉 Thin Reed Throat by Damien Becker
👉 Screaming and Euphoria by Gillian Rubinstein
👉 Blimmin' Wimmin by Dael Allison
👉 Still Alive in Dubbo by David Grant Lloyd
👉 The Travelling Soul edited by Josh Stenberg & Lap Lam
👉 New Ordinance for the Dead by Ronald Araña Atilano

Get your copy!

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22/05/2026

Kit Kelen’s My First Forest of Words exhibition opened last Saturday at the Stirrup Gallery, during the Addi Road Writers Festival, with a sharp and generous introduction from Brook Emery.

The room was filled with writers, artists, poets, and friends!

Thank you all for showing up and celebrating with us! 🙏😎🌟

Thank you Addi Road Community Organisation for making this event possible.