Category: Poets

Hunter Living Histories December 2025 Showcase University of Newcastle (Australia)

Hunter Living Histories – December 2025 Showcase

November 24, 2025

Hunter Living Histories Showcase Monday, 1 December 2025, 1.00pm-2.30pm ZOOM link HERE Join us at 1.00pm-2.30pm for our final Hunter Living Histories showcase for 2025. All Welcome. WHERE: via ZOOM link HERE or in person Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (Type Room no. into ONLINE MAP) WHEN –  Monday 1 December 2025 (1.00pm-2.30pm) Afternoon Tea will be … More Hunter Living Histories – December 2025 Showcase

Jan Dean, Former President of Poetry at the Pub (Photo Credit: Courtesy of Clarke Gormley)

Vale Jan Dean: Writer, Artist and Former President of Poetry at the Pub

May 12, 2025

Vale Jan Dean Jan Dean, Newcastle writer and artist, has died. She was a life-member and former president of Poetry at the Pub.  She had been involved in that group since 1997. Prizes & Accolades Jan won the 2018 Newcastle Writers Festival joanne burns Microlit Award for her prose poem ‘Fish Flops and Flaps’ published … More Vale Jan Dean: Writer, Artist and Former President of Poetry at the Pub

‘Rob the Ranter’-Literary Life in Early Newcastle

May 14, 2019

By Ross Edmonds. The early decades of White colonisation in and around Newcastle were dominated by the struggle for survival. In these circumstances any form of culture was thin on the ground, nevertheless the desire of at least a few people for more than purely material gain had made itself felt as early as 1835. … More ‘Rob the Ranter’-Literary Life in Early Newcastle