A new review of David McCooey just arrived from the UK

Stuart Barnes talks about Like to the Lark

I ask my authors to write a letters to the subscribers of the book packages I offer each year. I thought I should share the letter written by Stuart Barnes at the start of 2023 as Like to the Lark was arriving into the world. I think it gives the sense of the textures contained […]

Stuart Barnes awarded the Wesley Michel Wright prize for 2023!

BIG NEWS TODAY!!! This message from the University of Melbourne:Please join us in congratulating Stuart Barnes, winner of the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for an original work of verse or poetry.Barnes’ winning work, Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing), is described by the Prize Selection Committee as filled with “extraordinary poems, which draw their […]

Gemma Nisbet on Life Matters ABC Radio National with Hilary Harper

Have a listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/gemma-nisbet-things-we-live-with/102932082

Admissions is one year old!

UPDATE 6 October Admissions has just won the: Mental Health Matters Media and the Arts Award finalists: –The Black Box Mental Health Project – Core Community Services –Admissions + MAD Poetry – Red Room Poetry –It’s a Mind Field! And Admissions won today! Congrats to the three editors and all of the contributors!.An illuminating, beautiful, […]