Welcome to

Australian Children’s Poetry 

This site is dedicated to showcasing contemporary Australian poets and their work for children. Most poets have included their contact details if you wish to engage them to present at your school or writers festival.

We do not publish collections or anthologies; nor do we offer an assessment or editing service. However, the site presents a Poem of the Day so, if you are an Australian poet and would like to submit your children’s poem for consideration, you are more than welcome to do so.

We are happy to accept information about children’s poetry activities and events in Australia and overseas, poetry links, competitions, interviews with poets or publishers, and relevant articles.

Australian Children’s Poetry would like to acknowledge and thank the Illawarra South-Coast CBCA for its generous donation towards making this blog site a reality back in 2014. Other individual contributors included Anne Bell, Dianne Cook, Margaret Pearce, Jennifer Erlanger, Stephen Whiteside, Pat Simmons, Teena Raffa-Mulligan, Janeen Brian, Wendy Blaxland, Dianne Ellis and Katherine Gallagher.

Submissions and enquiries to Kerry Gittins at ozchildrenspoetry@gmail.com 

This blog site was designed and constructed by Helen Ross.

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: All articles and poems are copyrighted. As such please acknowledge the poet if you read their poetry to classes or make copies for class use. Any copies need to be included on your CAL (Copyright) records.