Best of Australian Poems 2023

Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Ibis House, Meanjin, Overland and Going Down Swinging. She has been an Emerging Writers’, Festival Melbourne Recital Centre Writer in Residence, a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, and shortlisted for t... Read more

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Their creative practice explores the intersection of activism, science-fiction, and technology in imagining radical futures and ushering them into existence.

Jeanine Leane belongs to the Wiradjuri people from the Murrumbidgee River in south west NSW. She is a writer poet and teacher whose prose, essays and poetry have been published widely in Australia and abroad. She is the editor of Guwayu – for all times: A collection of First Nations Poetry and cur... Read more

Kate Lilley is a queer, feminist poet-scholar based in Sydney. Her most recent book of poems, Tilt, won the Victorian Premier’s Award. Her earlier books, Versary and Ladylike, were shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize. Versary won the Grace Leven Prize for the b... Read more

Leah Muddle is an artist, poet and retail worker. In 2023, she produced new work for Australian Poetry Journal, Sick Leave and a programme initiated by the Monash Museum of Modern Art in response to the exhibition ‘Renee So: Provenance’.

Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry and criticism on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. Autumn is an arts worker and the Interviews Editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Her poetry collections include She Woke and Rose, Liquidation and The Drama Student, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Queen... Read more

Thabani Tshuma is a multi-award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as Dichotomi magazine, Next in Colour, CUBBY ART, Cordite Poetry Review, and ABC ArtWorks’ SLAMMED segment. Thabani is a co-curator of Thin Red Lines and his debut collection,... Read more