ABOUT US

Poetry for Grand Parade Poets is the imaginative use of language under pressure for the enjoyment of both others and yourself...

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WHO THEY ARE

Read more about each of our poets here.
Including the recent SEVEN VISIONS OF ROBERT HARRIS (video interviews)

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SEE OUR VIDEO GALLERY

See some of our videos of poetry readings and more here...

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INDIGO MORNING by Rachael Munro

With one previous credit to her name for a volume in the late 1980s, Rachael Munro (1953-2014) has been diligently ‘ploughing her own field’ in Australian poetry for decades. Her verse is keenly observed and shot through with wry quips and wryer subtlety. Munro’s is a brave voice but not overbearing, rather it takes courage […]

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DOMESTIC ARCHAEOLOGY by Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne

Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne lives in Perth, Western Australia, with her female partner of eighteen years and their daughter. Centred on the universal themes of family life and on issues of fertility/infertility, her poems are public works of plain speaking vigour. ‘For if we are a modern family,’ she says, ‘my poetry also shows we are breathtakingly similar to most families […]

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PERRIER FEVER by Pete Spence

Pete Spence (1946-) has achieved an enviable international acclaim for much of his work in painting, experimental film, visual poetry and of course the exuberant, engaging lyric verse. Pete has been one of the undiscovered heroes of Australian literature, for over four decades he has been quietly pursuing his own direction in this multiplicity of […]

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6AM IN THE UNIVERSE by Benjamin Frater

With an inheritance from Ginsberg and the Beats, the Symbolists, the Russian Futurists and Artaud, Benjamin Frater (1979–2007) applied their traditions to his vision of the suburbs of south-west Sydney, producing, with his unique, visionary work, both on the page and in performance, some of the most total and committed poetry of his generation. His […]

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