A place for poetry that's movable or fixed. Give some poems shelter, partitions or light-reflecting surfaces. For poetry involving electronics, television, terminals or monitors. For poems with long homeless sentences that require scrolling. For poetry needing protection or concealmeant. For poems riddled with secrects.

House of the Tragic Poet poems will be set to film by David Rozetsky.
Venue: Various screens around Federation Square throughout the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Details: This installation which first made its appearance at last years Melbourne Writers Festival and has since meandered all over the country can be found on the banks of the Yarra this year. The House is an inspiration of the Australian Poetry Centre which has commissioned new poems this year from Dorothy Porter, Philip Salom, Luis Gonzalez Serrano and Elizabeth Campbell.

Time 9:30
Date: August 29
Venue: the BMW Edge Bar Melbourne Writers Festival
Details: Three spoken word performers, one musician, absolutely no interference! A collaborative poetic work to reach through the TV set of our minds into the unknown, the alien, the other. Nathan Curnow, Sean M Whelan & alicia sometimes, with musician Quinn Stacpoole. Commissioned by Going Down Swinging.

Reading Material launch
Venue: Festival Club Melbourne Writers Festival
Time:6 pm
Details: Filmmaker Nicholas Hansen, overt experimentalist Michael Farrell and post-medium poets Peter O'Mara and Patrick Jones turn ACMIs function space into an environment of the poetical with readings from new books: Farrell's a raiders guide (Giramondo) and O'Mara-Jones' How to do Words with Things (treeElbow).

Dates: 6th National Poetry Week highlights from the Australian Poetry Centres Festival at Castlemaine.
13th Thirteen Jesuses a multi-voiced suite of poems by Garth Madsen.
20th High Country the high country poems of Douglas Stewart and David Campbell.
27th Gen XY, New Voices a sample of the work of four new Australian poets: L.K. Holt, Craig Billingham, Josephine Rowe and Aidan Coleman.

Display City of Sydney Library, Customs House Circular Quay
Date: Monday, September 1 to Sunday, September 7 as a joint promotion of the AFP and National Poetry Week.
Contact: Danny G Live Poets at the Live Poets who meet on Wednesday, August 27th