Tina Giannoukos recently interviewed me on the Spoken Word program on Community Radio 3CR about my latest collection The Office of Literary Endeavours. You can listen to the interview on the Spoken Word website https://www.3cr.org.au/spoken-word/episode/mark-roberts-office-literary-endeavours or you can listen below:
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You can buy The Office of Literary Endeavours from 5 Islands Press
I’m excited to have a new poem ‘Theory of flight for two voices’ longlisted for the 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize. It really is an honour to be listed among the other great poets on the list (https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/07/14/2025-poetry-prize-longlist/). My thanks to the judges Willo Drummond, Rose Lucas and Ali Whitelock. I’m really looking forward to reading the anthology which will include all the longlisted poems.
Les Wick’s launch speech for my latest collection, The Office of Literary Endeavours (5 Island Press), is now live on Rochford Street Review. If you couldn’t make it to the launch you can see what he had to say at https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2025/07/09/les-wicks-launches-the-office-of-literary-endeavours-by-mark-roberts/
“For me, I was struck by the constant violence explored in this collection. What is remarkable is the way Mark with a deft and gentle voice recreates that violence on the page. The way he presents it makes that violence even more tangible. Impossible to disregard. It is physical in the poems shadow birds, how many more are coming and the conscription vote 1916. Economic violence is explored throughout alongside extensively the violence of erasure”.
The Office of Literary Eneavours by Mark Roberts is available from:
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