In 2014, while judging the Forward Prize for Poetry – one of poetry’s most prestigious awards – broadcaster and author Jeremy Paxman declared that ‘[p]oetry has connived its own irrelevance’. Paxman was talking about his desire for poetry ‘to engage with ordinary people’, to speak beyond the borders of sandstone institutions and for poets to become what Shelley called ‘the unacknow ... (read more)
Tim Loveday
Tim Loveday is a writer and an educator. In 2023, he won the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award. In 2022, he won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Award. His work has been widely published. Tim teaches Creative Writing at RMIT. He is a current PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.