Rabbit Poetry Journal

10/12/2023

Rabbit 38: Archive is finally out! With thanks to Anne Casey and Jason Wee for guest co-editing the poetry section. Contributors include: Brenda Saunders, Rozanna Lilley, Willo Drummond, Rachael Mead, Laurie Duggan, Isabella G Mead, Petra White, Bonny Cassidy, Lauren Russell, Angela Gardner, Janaka Malwatta and many more! Subscribe now and receive our two new RPS books by Sholto Buck and Mitchell Welch for free! 🐰 🐇

‘I love the idea that these documents have been collected by someone, or by many people; that they have been considered worthy of curation, have been gifted to or purchased by an institution that will then catalogue those materials according to an impersonal ordering system, and store them for som...

10/12/2023

Delighted to release Mitchell Welch's debut collection 'Vehicular Man' as no. 21 in the Rabbit Poets Series. You can pick up a copy at this link, or if you subscribe to the journal, you will receive a copy for free! 🐇 🐇 🐇

Mitchell Welch’s debut collection is an inventive tour de force that sets forth, in the words of Dominique Hecq, 'a poetic universe full of provocation, seeings-into and ludic energy.' In two sections, 'Vehicles Of' and 'Vehicles For', Welch sets up a dialectic between two contrary

10/12/2023

We are excited to release Sholto Buck's debut collection, In The Printed Version Of Heaven, as number 20 in the Rabbit Poets Series. You can pick up a copy here: https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop/in-the-printed-version-of-heaven-sholto-buck or, if you subscribe to the journal, you will receive a copy for free! 🐰

Full of cheek and wit, Sholto Buck's debut collection presents us with a kaleidoscopic view of (sub)urban feeling, being and relating. These poems, attuned as they are to practices of noticing and observing, offer ways to articulate a world that shimmers and shifts around the self, and which fuels o

29/11/2023

While our (slightly delayed) Archive issue ( #38) will be released next week, we are delighted to open a call for poetry submissions for the MUTINY issue ( #39), guest co-edited by Jennifer Compton and Joan Fleming. Details for submission via this link.

For Rabbit: MUTINY, we seek rogue poems that resist the usual rules of resistance. We’re after nonfiction poems, in all aesthetic registers, that scorn the tyranny of planned obsolescence, false idolatry, rabid anthropocentrism, bad governance, and the logic of the market above all else. Send us ...

13/09/2023

Rabbit is thrilled to release William Fox's debut collection 'Apollo Bay'! If you are unable to make the launch on 26th September in Melbourne, you can pick up a copy at the below link! (And note the fabulous cover image by Bill Henson 🐇)

‘William Fox reminds us that, behind the poetry, poets are human and are built from place. For years, Fox has crafted his voice to arrive at this magnificent debut: biding time, honing cadence, refining his ability to lure us to a bluestone precipice where, a few poems in, we become trapped in the...

13/09/2023

We are delighted to release Nadia Niaz's first collection 'The Djinn Hunters', featuring a beautiful cover by Fauzia Minallah. If you are unable to make the launch in Melbourne on 26th September, you can pick up a copy at this link!

‘Nadia Niaz dances worlds into being. Hers is a rich and heady poetry, unafraid to play with form, spun for us across contrasting worlds, languages, time, customs. It’s a poetry to savour, gasp and marvel at for its spirit of sustained and generous observation.’ —Kevin Brophy Nadia Niaz is t...

08/05/2023

Warmest congratulations to the three poets shortlisted for the 2023 Mary Gilmore Award, and to their wonderful publishers: Puncher & Wattmann , Rabbit Poetry Journal & Cordite Publishing Inc. “We wanted to see a poet who's fully inhabiting the potential of the form,” says chair Bonnie Cassidy.

13/02/2023

We are excited to open for submissions for Rabbit #38: The ARCHIVE Issue! Submit your poems before 28th April to be considered by our guest co-editors Anne Casey and Jason Wee. 🐰 🐇

RABBIT is a print journal for nonfiction poetry, based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded by Jessica L. Wilkinson in mid-2011 and has recently released its 36th issue.A pioneer in the field, RABBIT intends to celebrate the potential for poetry to explore and interrogate the boundaries of nonfic...

20/12/2022

New Rabbit! No. 36, the ART issue, is available now. Featuring poems selected by Leah Muddle and Angela Gardner, including those by Bella Li, Pascalle Burton, LK Holt, Lesh Karan, Jo Langdon, Heather Taylor Johnson, Ouyang Yu, Dan Hogan and many more; as well as interviews with Emily Stewart and Alex Selenitsch; Essays by Cassandra Atherton + Paul Hetherington, Brian Ang, Zhang Ziqi and Richard Tipping; reviews of new Australian poetry collections, homework by Sarah Holland-Batt and artwork by Michael Farrell. Purchase through the link below! 🐰

5 Scenes and a Handful of Questions 1. Several years ago, a student in a creative writing class told me about an encounter he had had at an art gallery; he had stood for some time observing an exhibit for which he could not find a mounted label—no details on artist, title, media, or year that the

29/09/2022

We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 37: the COLLABORATIONS Issue. The main 'nonfiction poetry' section will be co-edited by Jacqui Malins and Jess Wilkinson. We say 'poetry' because we are keen to see the wild and wonderful results of two or more minds and/or bodies and/or practices coming together to generate art. For more info see the website:

*Submissions for the main poetry section must include a 'nonfiction poetry' component, but we are also open to collaborative works that feature images or any other material that can be adequately represented within the pages of our print-only journal.

04/07/2022

Rabbit is partnering with the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize once more! Follow this link to enter: https://holmgren.com.au/lp/venie-poetry-prize-2022/

04/07/2022

Rabbit is coming to Brisbane, and if you're there on 25th July, come celebrate our new releases with us! - Rabbit 35 (Architecture, with poems guest-edited by Ella Jeffery), and new RPS titles by Mitch Cave and Rebecca Cheers. 6pm for a 630pm sharp start. Register at the below link (there's also a zoom hookup)! 🐰

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