Poetry Archives - Tasmanian Times

2025 Tasmanian Literary Award Winners Announced 6PM tonight!

Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025! Excitement is in the air, as wordsmiths ready to celebrate tonight at the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards. The...

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Wisdom from a Long Life

To speak to your younger, more naive self in another, and teach them before they may repeat your mistakes will heal the...

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Singled Man

Gentled ejection, choice honed by Hobson; Leave, live in garage. Join ranks of life-losers, the disposable date-expired. Loss of relationship, wounding....

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Stick Ya Stadium Up Ya Bum – the Poem

Welcome back viewers to Tasmania ball mania, With highlights of aerial ping pong, banana kicks, kicks through sticks, Players carried off to...

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Poem – ‘Magical Moment’

‘Magical Moment’ by Callum J. Jones As the day begins to fade away, a stunning sight begins to play. The sun descends...

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Literary Launceston – Part 2

There’s no doubt that springtime is also festival time in northern Tasmania. It’s the season when people emerge from hibernation, throw off...

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Literary Launceston – Part 1

Dictionaries define poetry as, ‘the purest form of literary expression’, while Greek lyric poet Simonides (556BC-468BC) suggested – more poetically! – that...