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How to Dress for Old Age offers personal reflections and important lessons for facing life’s last act

Once we enter midlife, it seems everywhere we look there are signs pointing to the future. Advice about retirement strategies, property and housing, superannuation (if we’re lucky enough to have it), how to age well, be healthy, adjust to life’s “third act”.

The Conversation · May 25

Poetry for an anxious world: 5 experts share poems of grief, hope and restoration

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced with war, illness, worry, or great changes of any kind.

The Conversation · Apr 10

Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’

Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4, 2025

Poet Sarah Holland-Batt awarded $60,000 Stella Prize

Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the Stella Prize with her book The Jaguar – the second year in a row a book of poetry has taken the prize.

The New Daily · Apr 27, 2023

Sarah Holland-Batt wins the 2023 Stella Prize with a powerful look at death and ageing

Acclaimed poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize for her powerful and elegiac collection of poetry, The Jaguar.

The Conversation · Apr 27, 2023

Stella Prize 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt wins $60,000 for her poetry collection, The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt has won the Stella Prize, for her "lyrical and wise" collection The Jaguar — the second year a poet has won this major award for women and non-binary writers.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2023

Sarah Holland-Batt wins Stella prize for ‘tender’ poems about her father’s death

Poet and outspoken advocate for aged care reform is the second poet in a row to win $60,000 award for Australian women and non-binary writers

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2023

Stella Prize shortlist 2023: your guide to 6 gripping, courageous books

The Stella Prize has shown that feminist activism in the literary sector can work. At its outset, in 2013, it drew attention to the lack of women on prize shortlists.

The Conversation · Apr 26, 2023

Cultural policy sets up national poet post

Setting up a national poet laureate is among the measures aimed at writers in the new national cultural policy.

AAP · Jan 30, 2023

TISM make long-awaited return: ‘After the election there’s a gap in the market for grotesque clowns’

After a 19-year absence, the satirical Melbourne band will be back on stage in December at the Good Things festival – and they’re ready to take the piss out of everyone. Including us

The Guardian - AU · Jun 15, 2022