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# Liquid Amber Press

Poetry meets Art

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- [2026 Poetry Prize - Longlist](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2026/07/04/2026-poetry-prize-longlist/) - We are excited to announce the 53 poems in the 2026 Poetry Prize Longlist
- [Sarah Rice reads...](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2026/05/21/sarah-rice-reads/) - Enjoy three of Sarah Rice's poems and the wonderful images that they speak to
- ['Alight on all things precious' – double launch](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2026/04/22/alight-double-launch/) - Two wonderful events have launched Sarah Rice’s new collection 'Alight on all things precious'. We heard great insights from Emilie Collyer (in Melbourne) and Jen Webb (in Canberra) and were treated to Sarah’s reading and totally ‘on brand’ enthusiasm for philosophy, art and poetry.
- [In the spotlight...](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2026/04/23/in-the-spotlight/) - Some of the wonderful poets in our community tell us something about themselves, share favourite poems, reflect on the business of writing and complete the pleasure by reading for us.
- [Poetry 'taking flight'](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/11/28/poetry-taking-flight/) - "Wrapped in a velvety blanket of poetry" – last night we launched 'Poetry of Flight' – the anthology of the Longlist from the 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize. Rose Lucas, Willo Drummond and Ali Whitelock hosted the evening, Rae White did the honours - declaring the book itself taken flight, and we heard many of the poets read us their fantastic poems.
- [Angela Costi, poet in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2026/03/22/angela-costi-poet-in-the-spotlight-2/) - Angela Costi is one of Melbourne’s best known and most loved poets – for her generosity and dedication to poetry as a path to understanding and sharing life. We asked her how she approaches writing and her tips for emerging poets.
- [Collections coming](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2026/02/06/collections-coming/) - At the recent Liquid Amber Call we had a stunning number of submissions! Thank-you to everyone who sent us manuscripts - we would have loved to be able to publish more titles. We are thrilled to announce our list of collections for the next 18 months.
- [2025 Poetry Prize - and the winners are ...](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/08/11/2025-poetry-prize-and-the-winners-are/) - So pleased to announce the winners of the Liquid Amber 2025 Poetry Prize.
- [Speaking for Others - Women's Poetry as Advocacy](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/10/25/speaking-for-others-pen/) - PEN Melbourne and Liquid Amber Press hosted an evening of poetry as a powerful way to tell the difficult stories of others who cannot speak for themselves.
- [Spoken Word - Angela Costi on poetry and advocacy](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/06/26/spoken-word-angela-costi-on-poetry-and-advocacy/) - ‘Poets using their voices’…to explore ideas - Tina Giannoukos’ interview of Angela Costi on 3CR’s Spoken Word is a great listen.
- [2024 Poetry Prize - announcing the winners ...](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/08/18/2024-poetry-prize-winners/) - It's a great pleasure to announce the winners of the Liquid Amber 2024 Poetry Prize.
- ['The Heart of the Advocate' - our day in court](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/03/24/the-heart-of-the-advocate-launch/) - Yesterday the Old Magistrates' Court in Melbourne was standing room only when Alana Kelsall launched Angela Costi's new book 'The Heart of the Advocate'.
- ['Intents' - a myriad of meanings](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/06/14/intents-a-myriad-of-meanings/) - 'Intents' - Anne Elvey's new collection was launched today by Jennifer Compton. A celebration of an important book of and on bayside Bunurong Country
- ['The Deepest Thing' - reflections on a life of triumph](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/05/04/the-deepest-thing-reflections/) - EA (Anne) Gleeson’s wonderful new book was launched today by Maryanne Diamond AO, with family, friends and poetry community celebrating.
- [Stephanie Powell, poet in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/02/03/stephanie-powell-poet-in-the-spotlight/) - Stephanie Powell is a great young Australian poet who has been ‘in the news’ – winning prizes and publishing great poetry. We asked her to tell us about her writing and why she is The Attic Poet.
- ['Invisible Wasp' flies](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/10/27/invisible-wasp-flies/) - Emilie Collyer launched Stephanie Powell’s wonderful new collection ‘Invisible Wasp’ at the Spark! Poetry Festival yesterday. Steph read some of her fabulous poems and discussed her poetic craft with Emilie. Watch Emilie and Steph again (if you were there on the day), or catch up now if you missed the launch in person.
- [2024 Poetry Prize - Longlist](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/07/30/2024-poetry-prize-longlist/) - We are pumped to announce the 50 poems in the 2024 Poetry Prize Longlist
- [2024 Shortlist & Emerging Poet Prize Winners announced](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/08/12/2024-short-list-emerging-poet-prize-winners/) - And now the next exciting step… the judges announce the Shortlist poems and the Emerging Poet Prize Winners
- [Celebrating 'Poetry of Change'](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/11/22/celebrating-poetry-of-change/) - A great celebration – last night we launched the anthology 'Poetry of Change' – the collection of poems in the Longlist from the 2024 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize. Rose Lucas hosted the evening, Anne M. Carson honoured the poets, declaring the book out there in the world, and many of the poets read us their wonderful poems.
- [Spark! Poetry Festival](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/10/26/spark-poetry-festival/) - Spark! – connecting with an energy charge through poetry. We were stoked to run our first ‘in person’ Poetry Festival on Saturday 26 October at the Bluestone Church Arts Space in Footscray Naarm. A fab event with three themed panels, curated short readings, and the launch of Stephanie Powell’s stunning new collection 'Invisible Wasp'.
- [The Art of Close Attention](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/08/28/the-art-of-close-attention/) - Poetry – like meditation or prayer – is a form of paying close attention, of listening deeply in a way that allows for a flow between inner and outer, observer and observed. At our Zoom event this evening poets and meditators Rose Lucas, Tony Mills and Cathy Altmann each read and explored the confluences of poetry and their contemplative practices. Video now available.
- ['Remarkable' launch at Willy Lit Festival](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/06/25/remarkable-launch-at-willy-lit-festival/) - Thanks so much to Jennifer Harrison for her enthusiastic launch of 'Remarkable as Breathing' the Willy Lit Festival last week. Congratulations to Rose Lucas on a fine collection of contemplative insights.
- ['A Hill to Die On' - launched to a great beat](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/08/12/a-hill-to-die-on-launched/) - Yesterday a packed crowd enjoyed a fabulous afternoon when Nick Lanyon launched Nathan Curnow’s new book 'A Hill to Die On', Nathan read AND there was a creative live music response by guest artist Geoffrey Williams (singer, songwriter, choir leader and national busking champion).
- [Double launch at Willy Lit Festival](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/06/18/double-launch-wlf/) - Thanks heaps to Jennifer Harrison and Ross Gillett for launching 'Remarkable as Breathing' and 'Volte Face', respectively at the Willy Lit Festival last week. Congratulations to Rose Lucas and Dominique Hecq on really fine collections.
- [Collections to come](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/01/20/collections-to-come/) - What an amazing round of submissions we had for the Liquid Amber Publication Call! Thank you to everyone who submitted – for your willingness to share your wonderful work with us. We would certainly love to have been able to publish more titles – but are thrilled to announce our list for 2024 and into 2025.
- ['Stars Like Salt' - ziplines of joy](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/04/21/stars-are-launched/) - Angela Costi has launched the wonderful new collection 'Stars Like Salt' by Cathy Altmann. "... 'Stars Like Salt', carry us both near and far, which is how we exist. Stars and salt are elemental in humans. Our bodies are part of the universe, and part of the sea....."
- ['Clarion' is launched](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2024/06/02/clarion-is-launched/) - Today Judith Nangala Crispin and Mark Tredinnick have launched this important new book. A full crowd at Gleebooks, Glebe in Sydney, heard Judith, Mark and Jenny talk about and read from 'Clarion'. And watched with glee as Jenny unfurled a 5 metre image of one of trees of the book.
- [2022 Poetry Prize - and the winners are ...](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/09/07/and-the-winners-are/) - We are super excited to announce the winners of the Liquid Amber 2022 Poetry Prize Drum roll .....
- [2023 Poetry Prize - 'Home'](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/08/12/long-list-short-list-and-winners/) - The judges announce the Long List, Short List and Winning poems and the Emerging Poet Prize Winners
- [More about the winners in 2023 ...](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/08/11/and-now-the-winners/) - We were pumped to announce the winners of the Liquid Amber 2023 Poetry Prize .....
- [The joy of open mic](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/09/14/the-joy-of-open-mic-2/) - The opportunity to listen and to read is the heartbeat of poetry – in open mic sessions poets get to try out their latest work with an audience, and listeners hear new and emerging art - and Zoom has thrown the gallery wide open, geographically speaking. At our Liquid Amber Zoom Poetry evenings we have readers and audience from across Australia and internationally. You can listen again, or enjoy sessions you missed real-time on YouTube.
- [Ali Whitelock, poet in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/09/14/ali-whitelock-poet-in-the-spotlight/) - “I say to myself ‘go on, write it, I dare you.’”
- [Ways to Say Goodbye](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/09/14/ways-to-say-goodbye/) - 'Ways to Say Goodbye' is out in the world. At our September Poetry Zoom Kevin Brophy provided a wonderful introduction to Anne Kellas' new collection and Anne shared her some of her work. Watch the feature again, or catch up if you missed it on the evening.
- [Launch of ‘The Light Café’](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/06/15/launch-of-the-light-cafe/) - Liquid Amber Press is delighted to publish Diane Fahey’s new book 'The Light Café' which was launched by poet and editor Ross Gillett at our Poetry Zoom on 15 June 2023.
- [Open mic to enjoy again](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/06/15/open-mic-to-enjoy-again/) - You can hear emerging poets and old hands share their new poems on Open Mic at our Zoom Poetry sessions. If you missed 15 June, or would like to hear them again, this is your chance.
- [Ross Gillett, poet in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/05/18/ross-gillett-poet-in-the-spotlight/) - Ross Gillett's publications span from 2006 to 2022. He has been shortlisted for and won a swag of prizes (including the Newcastle) and is a poetry editor and mentor. And now as our ‘poet in the spotlight’ he reflects in his quiet and thoughtful way about how he writes and what he loves to read.
- [Mx Carson, in the library, with the pen](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2023/05/18/mx-carson-in-the-library-with-the-pen/) - Our latest event - 'The Detective’s Chair' by Anne M. Carson and illustrated by René Carrasco was launched by Andrea Goldsmith in the wonderful Athenaeum Library in Collins St, Melbourne. Andrea drew out the clues – the connections between poetry and crime……
- [ali whitelock launches 'Poetry of Encounter'](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/12/01/ali-whitelock-launches-poetry-of-encounter/) - At our last Zoom Poetry night for 2022, ali whitelock launched 'Poetry of Encounter: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology' and many of the poets read their poems. "What a wonderful launch it was last night – readings impressive, speeches superb and the whole feeling was so uplifting. Ali’s speech was rousing …. it goes to the heart of what poetry is, or can be" - Denise O’Hagan
- ['Leaf' launched - ecopoetic gala](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/09/22/leaf-launched-ecopoetic-gala/) - At the launch of Anne Elvey’s wonderful new collection 'Leaf' we heard some of the world’s most esteemed eco-poets. We were honoured to welcome Peter Larkin (from UK) and John C Ryan (in New York) to each read their poetry, and Shari Kocher (in Naarm) to do the honours and launch the book. You can listen and breathe in what transpires with the poetry of plants – the recordings are now on our YouTube channel.
- [Sharon Monagle in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/09/10/sharon-monagle-in-the-spotlight/) - We have been featuring a regular ‘poet in the spotlight’ – but this time it’s an artist in focus - our very own ‘cover girl’, Sharon Monagle. Sharon is a visual artist from Naarm/Melbourne, well known for her portraits and abstract expressionist style. If you have loved the covers of many of our Liquid Amber publications – you’ve been enjoying Sharon’s art.
- [Increments of the Everyday](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/10/29/increments-of-the-everyday/) - “This is a collection of poems not afraid to be still. While acknowledging anxiety, isolation and grief, Lucas invites us to breathe in the goodness of relationships, gardens and art…. This is a poetics of openness that Lucas has made quite her own.” Phillip Hall We gathered in person (yay) – and Angela Costi launched Rose’s new collection (published by Puncher & Wattmann)
- [Jennifer Compton in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/08/13/jennifer-compton-in-the-spotlight/) - A great supporter of poets and poetry – Jen Compton is one of our national treasures. “I have been in the poetry game for a very long time. And I am as still as keen on poetry as ever I was. I use poetry. I am a user. If it is unspeakable, poetry will say it. If it is ineffable, poetry will attempt it.” Jennifer Compton. Photo credit: Nicholas Walton-Healy
- ['After Cage' is launched](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/07/12/after-cage-is-launched/) - At Zoom Poetry on July 7, we had a rich and exciting launch for the 2nd edition of Dominique Hecq’s experimental poem, 'After Cage'. Marion May Campbell did the formal honours, Dominique read to us powerfully from sections of the poem, and together in discussion, they opened up the nuances of this important work - a ‘masterclass in poetry’.
- [Undercoat: Poems about Paintings](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/07/07/undercoat-poems-about-paintings/) - ‘In this vivid collection Mark O’Flynn takes the painter’s spatial plane of colours and lines and adds the dimensions of time – story, character, the narrator’s voice – using the poet’s rhythmic mastery of sound’. Alice Major And at our July Zoom Poetry, Mark was our poet in the spotlight.
- [July Open Mic to enjoy again](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/07/10/july-open-mic-to-enjoy-again/) - Another great Open mic session..... ‘Had a wonderful time tonight. So much to munch on I forgot I hadn’t had dinner’ 😊 ‘Wonderful safe place for poets established and emerging – love it’ If you missed it, or would like to watch and listen again...
- [What is seen / and what is not](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/06/18/what-is-seen-and-what-is-not/) - In her recent 'Westerly' review of 'This Shuttered Eye' by Rose Lucas, Lucy Dougan reminds us that ‘How a poet sees and frames things is a central clue to readers for what is being told to them about being in the world, about being alive’. And her advice about this collection: ‘read cover to cover’.
- [Anne Elvey | 'This Shuttered Eye'](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/05/15/anne-elvey-on-this-shuttered-eye/) - ‘When I think of Rose’s poetry, I think of intersections between poetry, breath, voice and the poetics of space/spacing’ …[it] is a journey across centuries and landscapes, where attention to the present opens out to care beyond the self’. Anne Elvey Anne’s launch speech has now been published in The Rochford Street Review.
- [Rose van Son in the spotlight](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/04/27/rose-van-son-in-the-spotlight/) - 'Poet in the Spotlight' is a new feature from Liquid Amber in which one of the wonderful poets in our community tells us something about themselves, shares favourite poems, reflects on the business of writing and completes the pleasure by reading for us. Thanks heaps to Rose van Son, newly appointed Patron of the next Perth Poetry Festival for being our first poet to take the spotlight.
- [Congrats Simone – Open Mic Star](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/03/26/congrats-simone-open-mic-star/) - One of our wonderful open mic poets in March was Simone King – and wow – a week later her poem ‘Surfing Again’ won the prestigious Blake Prize! Congratulations Simone – how wonderful is that. You can listen to Simone reading and all the other poets too.
- [Hear Peter Minter & Mark O’Flynn](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/03/18/hear-peter-minter-mark-oflynn/) - Peter Minter’s launch of Mark O’Flynn’s latest poetry collection ‘Undercoat: Poems about Paintings’ plus Mark reading his poems and showing the images that inspired them – what’s not to love? If you missed them ‘real time’ at our last Zoom Poetry evening, or would like to read Peter’s launch speech, or watch again…
- [Undercoat | Virtual Gallery](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/02/24/undercoat-the-paintings-behind-the-poetry/) - Read the poems, find the art. An extra pleasure in reading Undercoat is finding the visual images that inspired Mark O'Flynn's beautifully crafted, insightful and often playful poems. The companion virtual gallery gives links to all the publicly available art. Bookmark it!
- [Lockdown Poetry has landed](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2021/11/18/lockdown-poetry-in-print/) - This new chapbook is a terrific milestone for us. It's the first anthology published by Liquid Amber Press, with experiences and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic from 21 poets – established and emerging – from across the world. We read of '...moments of unexpected beauty and consolation amidst the desolation' (Tricia Dearborn). The launch is now on YouTube. And the book available in our shop - great Xmas present.
- [Listen to Tricia Dearborn](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2021/11/18/featuring-tricia-dearborn/) - Tricia Dearborn is a wonderful writer with ‘trademark finely balanced, masterfully honed poems'. Her third collection 'Autobiochemistry' is powerful, engaging in its directness and emotional honesty, further establishing Dearborn’s position as an important voice in Australian poetry. We were super excited that Tricia was the feature poet at our November Zoom Reading. Now on our YouTube channel.
- [Exhibition and reading of 2020 Shelter in Place](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2021/05/01/2020-shelter-in-place/) - Bringing together the stunning work of visual artist Sharon Monagle and the poetry of Rose Lucas, this project involved an exhibition of paintings and poems all of which tracked the multiple experiences of 2020. From fires, the pandemic anxiety and lockdown, to new ways of thinking about how we live our lives. A book of 36 images of paintings and 29 poems was produced as a catalogue for the exhibition and is available here.
- [Launch of Liquid Amber Press](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2021/04/15/launch-of-liquid-amber-press/) - We’re off and running (well publishing) – Anne M Carson launches Liquid Amber Press in April 2021 at the exhibition for our publication 2020 Shelter in Place. Thanks so much Anne – everyone catches your verve.
- [Lockdown Poetry Zoom Reading](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2021/07/08/lockdown-poetry/) - Lockdown Poetry: The Covid Long Haul - our first Zoom Poetry Reading. 20 wonderful poets and participants from Australia and across the globe – UK, USA to the Philippines – shared thoughtful, confronting and beautiful reflections on varying experiences of this Covid-era. Keep an eye out for the Chapbook which will be published November 2021.
- [Sarah Rice reads + open mic](https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2021/09/23/sarah-rice-reads-open-mic/) - At our second Zoom Poetry Reading the fabulous Sarah Rice entranced us – the intersection of poetry and the visual embodied. The mood in the gallery: “blown away by Sarah Rice's artistic and poetic convergence, her sheer energy and enthusiasm as well”. And there were a dozen open mic readers with powerful poems. All now available on YouTube.

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