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YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE YOUR POEM ON THE BIG SCREEN.Tonight we bring Poetry on the Big Screens together for one final sh...
31/08/2026

YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE YOUR POEM ON THE BIG SCREEN.

Tonight we bring Poetry on the Big Screens together for one final showcase, and what a way to close Poetry Month: poems in public space, free to encounter, accessible to everyone.

POETRY ON THE BIG SCREENS SHOWCASE
Monday 31 August | 6.30–8.30 pm
The Shoe Bar and Cafe, Yagan Square

FREE — RSVP encouraged
RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/ppf2026-screenbound

Come find your poem. Come meet the poets. Come see the collection together.

And now, Sunday. Your LAST chance to throw yourself into Perth Poetry Festival 2026.We're still reeling from the poetic ...
29/08/2026

And now, Sunday. Your LAST chance to throw yourself into Perth Poetry Festival 2026.
We're still reeling from the poetic awesomeness of a whole Saturday of poetry.
But it's not over. There are more extraordinary events, an absolutely electric day of poetry ahead, Sunday

3:00–4:00 pm · DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH
Giles Watson launches Eungedup: A Wetland Summer Diary alongside Karen Lowry’s This Fragile Thing at Mattie Furphy House.

4:30–5:30 pm · POETRY IN THE AGE OF AI
Dennis Haskell, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon and Roe Kanchi take on one of the biggest questions facing writers now: what happens to poetry, creativity and authorship in the age of AI?

7:30–9:30 pm · THE FINALE
The Jonesway Theatre. The WA Poets Micro-Residency Showcase. One final night together.

LAST WORKSHOP · 3 SPOTS LEFT
11:30 am–1:30 pm · POETRY FOR THE SEASON
Cyndy Moody leads a gentle, beginner-friendly exploration of Noongar language, Djilba, seasonal change, writing and drawing.

This is it. The last day. The last rooms. The last poems of an incredible Festival weekend.

DON’T MISS THE ENDING.

Book your tickets: perthpoetryfestival.com/tickets

WHAT A NIGHT IT WAS. Here are some glimpese from The Gala!And the good news? You can still catch these poets in town tod...
29/08/2026

WHAT A NIGHT IT WAS. Here are some glimpese from The Gala!
And the good news? You can still catch these poets in town today, across three more Perth Poetry Festival events.

GRAINS OF SAND · 5:00–6:30 pm
Oormila V. Prahlad · Jack Collard · Mai White · Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes · Suraj · Cyndy Moody · Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon + more.

SATURDAY NIGHT POETS · 7:00–9:00 pm
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp · Giles Watson · Coral Carter · Leonard James · Emilie Collyer · Ender Başkan + our Young Poets Showcase, before Grey Maali closes the night with Allan Boyd, Maitland Schnaars, Kevin Gillam and James Webb.

And from 2:00–4:00 pm, Perth Poetry Club: Festival Edition brings more readings from Festival featured poets at The Moon Café.

The Gala was only the beginning. Today is stacked.
Book your tickets: perthpoetryfestival.com/tickets

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SATURDAY IS GOING TO BE BIG.Perth Poetry Festival rolls straight into another full day tomorrow, and the energy is alrea...
28/08/2026

SATURDAY IS GOING TO BE BIG.
Perth Poetry Festival rolls straight into another full day tomorrow, and the energy is already building.

The Saturday workshops are now FULL, and Perth Poetry Club is bound to be packed, with readings from some of the festival’s featured poets.

But that's just for starters. The real show is what comes next.

5:00–6:30 pm · GRAINS OF SAND
A rich gathering of poetry across cultures, languages, places and lived experience. Feel poetry as lingua franca: sensory, aural, textural, flowing, a shared human experience.

7:00–9:00 pm · SATURDAY NIGHT POETS
Young Poets open the night, followed by a brilliant line-up of festival voices taking us right through to Saturday night. And ending with the mind blowing premier of Grey Maali.

There are still some tickets left for the evening events, so if you’ve been wondering when to jump into the festival, this is the day.

Readings. Featured poets. New voices. A library full of poetry from afternoon into night.

Saturday 29 August · City of Perth Library

Book now: perthpoetryfestival.com

🎉 2026 Poetry d’Amour Shortlist AnnouncedWe’re delighted to share the 2026 Poetry d’Amour Shortlist and to finally revea...
28/08/2026

🎉 2026 Poetry d’Amour Shortlist Announced
We’re delighted to share the 2026 Poetry d’Amour Shortlist and to finally reveal this year’s judge, Deanne Leber.

Deanne had the formidable task of reading and considering more than 500 poems. And really, how do you judge a love poem? Each carries its own private world, its own history, tenderness, grief, longing, humour or small epic of the heart.

Our enormous thanks to Deanne for making her way through them all with such care, returning and rereading, weighing one extraordinary poem against another, and somehow arriving at a final **nine**. Yes,, the judging produced one small anomaly this year. We usually award up to three Highly Commended places, but Deanne’s insisted that we award four poems the 'Highly Commended recognition' in 2026.

Congratulations to our nine shortlisted poets:

The final awards will be revealed tonight at WA Poets Presents / Awards Night tonight as part of the Perth Poetry Festival.
📅 Friday 28 August 2026
⏰ 6.30–8.30 pm
📍 City of Perth Library
🎟️ FREE, livestream available to all submitters

Join us to hear the shortlisted poems and celebrate the poets behind them.

🎉 2026 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize Shortlist AnnouncedThis year was an especially difficult one to judge, with over 500 poe...
27/08/2026

🎉 2026 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize Shortlist Announced

This year was an especially difficult one to judge, with over 500 poems in contention and an extraordinary amount of careful consideration, re-reading and reconsideration before the final selections were made.

The decisions were so close that this year we have made a small exception and will recognise four Commended poems instead of the usual three.

Congratulations to all nine poets on the 2026 shortlist. 💙

We’re looking forward to celebrating the shortlisted poets, hearing their work, and revealing the final results tomorrow night at WA Poets Presents, as part of Perth Poetry Festival 2026.

See you there! Or online!🎙️✨

🔥 TONIGHT. THIS IS YOUR FINAL CALL. 🔥Perth Poetry Festival 2026 opens tonight at Perth Town Hall in the City of Perth wi...
27/08/2026

🔥 TONIGHT. THIS IS YOUR FINAL CALL. 🔥

Perth Poetry Festival 2026 opens tonight at Perth Town Hall in the City of Perth with THE GALA, an evening of poetry, performance and gathering featuring an extraordinary line-up of poets and performers.

If you've been meaning to come, now is the time. Bring your friends. Come for the poetry. Stay for the gathering. Be there for the opening night of Perth Poetry Festival 2026.

🎟️ FINAL TICKETS: events.humanitix.com/ppf2026-gala

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