Oz Hardwick is a writer, photographer,music journalist, and occasional musician, based in York (UK).. He has published six poetry collections, most recently TheHouse of Ghosts and Mirrors (Valley Press, 2017), and hasedited and co-edited several more, including (with Miles Salter) The Valley Press Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry, which was aNational Poetry Day recommendation in 2017.

Jill Jones has published 11 full-length books of poetry, including Viva the Real (UQP, 2018), Brink (Five Islands Press, 2017), and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide.

Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök teaches English at Charles Darwin University

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Wolpé ’s literary work includes four collections of poetry, two plays, three books of translations, and three anthologies. Wolpé ’s writings have been translated into eleven languages and included in numerous American and international anthologies and journals of poetry and fiction. Her writings have been featured on programs such as Selected Shorts and PRI. She has lived in the UK and Trinidad, and is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Sholeh Wolpe was an international poet in residence at 2018’s Poetry on the Move festival. Here she ‘takes us on a journey’ through her life and poetry and introduces many of us to the delights of Attar’s work.

Keijiro Suga is a Tokyo based poet, translator and professor of critical theory at Meiji University. He is well known for his ten books of essays of which Transversal Journeys (2010) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan.

Moira Egan is an American poet/translator who lives in Rome. She has published eight volumes of poetry (five in the US, three in Italy); the most recent of these are Synæsthesium (The New Criterion Prize, 2017) and Olfactorium (Italic PeQuod, 2018). Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies on four continents.

Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. Her books are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, and The Uncommon Feast (2018) by Recent Work Press. Her work has shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Anne Elder Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and twice for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

We’ll hear this question addressed by in turn, Lisa Gorton, Owen Bullock, Lisa Brockwell and Cassandra Atherton. Before opening up to a group discussion moderated by the host of the panel, Paul Munden.

Lionel’s is an uncompromising vision, tempered by years of activism and community engagement.

Lionel was a guest of the Poetry on the Move festival where we were lucky enough to hear him reading a selection of work taken from across his career.

Lionel was also interviewed by IPSI’s Jen Crawford and Paul Collis, where we catch him responding to a question on the potentials of Indigenous writing in Australia.

This episode hosted by Shane Strange

Here, she reads ‘Dollogy’ with the aid of Jen Crawford from the University of Canberra and discusses the poem at length in the interview following.

For three years, Paul Munden was director of the Poetry on the Move festival. As well as being a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canberra, Paul has published five collections of poetry including Chromatic and The Bulmer Murder both released in 2017. Last year we recorded him reading live from his latest collection Chromatic (UWAP).

This episode hosted by: Shane Strange

Sound production by Samuel Byrnand

This episode hosted by Shane Strange

Sound production by Samuel Byrnand