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Sydney Chamber Choir conductor Sam Allchurch reflects on how choirs today straddle the traditions of both secular and sacred music. 

The poet’s premier’s award for The Jaguar, a collection about the death of her father, follows Stella prize win earlier this year

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

BIGSOUND 2023 is a matter of DAYS away, and with more than 140 acts performing over three nights, you’re bound to discover at least one of your new favourite artists. Here are five you should definitely have on your radar.

Our socio-economic system is modelled on the wrong thing, greed. We need to change that.

You might think that, if anyone could pull off the establishment of a treaty, a great poet and a great policy maker, working in harmony, would surely have the best chance. By John Honner

\When women are in control of their own organisations and listened to in their communities, outcomes improve

Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first book since winning the Windham Campbell Prize may well prove her most enduring.

Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.

A faded, forgotten poem by Judith Wright, found in a second-hand book, explores the tension between humanity and the rise of computers in the 1960s. By Philip Harvey