Ella Skilbeck-Porter

Poet and PhD student in French Studies and visual poetry @unimelb

These Are Different Waters out with Vagabond Press (2023)

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

My book of poetry & visual poetry These Are Different Waters is out now with Vagabond Press 🌊💙🌊💙

The book collects poems written over a decade, loosely arranged around the motif of the municipal swimming pool.

https://t.co/ZWgxq68yr8

[Alicia Sometimes @aliciasometimes]

I want your ‘Space’ poetry for @corditepoetry Submit by September 1 📗🔭⭐️

[ASAL @ASAustLit]

Tonight Alexis Wright becomes the first Australian writer to win the ALS Gold Medal three times. “PRAISEWORTHY is hilarious, furious, poetical and painful, and all in large order.” @GiramondoBooks

[ASAL @ASAustLit]

“This is a poetry that pushes grammatical and existential boundaries, dunking on the reader with imperatives, or subtly reflecting and refracting incessant managerial nominalisations.” Dan Hogan (@packetofchips) wins the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award! @corditepoetry

[L I M I N A L @liminalmag]

Guest-edited by Mykaela Saunders, the Odes series invites six First Nations poets to write an ode to another. Featuring poems from Ali Cobby Eckermann, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jeanine Leane, Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, Lionel G. Fogarty & Tony Birch.

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

@tynedaile @ASAustLit @ella_esp Thanks @ASAustLit & @tynedaile! 🙂✨

[ASAL @ASAustLit]

Shortlisted for the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award: Ella Skillbeck-Porter, THESE ARE DIFFERENT WATERS “When you send a book out into the world, you hope it finds its readers & connects, so I’m moved & honoured to have reached the shortlist alongside so many incredible titles.” @ella_esp

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

@_michellecahill @SaraSalehTweets @nolotusblossom @NadiaNiaz @AusPoetry Thank you Michelle! 🙏💙

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

Big thx to the judges of the 2023 Anne Elder Award for these comments. Thrilled to have my book among such a fire list ❤️‍🔥 Congrats to @SaraSalehTweets @nolotusblossom @NadiaNiaz
Check out @AusPoetry site for comments on all of the books:
https://t.co/DbHi9lXnFs

[Australian Poetry @AusPoetry]

The judges also awarded three highly commended awards: These Are Different Waters by Ella Skilbeck-Porter (Vagabond, 2023), Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (Giramondo, 2023) and The Djinn Hunters by Nadia Niaz (Rabbit, 2023).

[Australian Poetry @AusPoetry]

The winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 is Sara M Saleh (@SaraSalehTweets) with The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (@UQPbooks, 2023). This year's judging panel included Jeanine Leane, Panda Wong and Harry Reid

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

@EmilieCollyer @ASAustLit Thanks so much @EmilieCollyer xx

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

Thank you to @ASAustLit & to the Mary Gilmore award & judges! Honoured & thrilled to be on this shortlist alongside incredible company!

[ASAL @ASAustLit]

Congratulations to the 6 poets shortlisted for the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award:
Dan Hogan, Secret Third Thing
Paris Rosemont, Banana Girl
Sara Saleh, The Flirtation of Girls
Ella Skillbeck-Porter, These are Different Waters
Tais Rose Wae, Riverbed Sky Songs
Grace Yee, Chinese Fish

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

@mascarareview @ASAustLit Thank you 🙏🌊💙 @mascarareview

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

@tynedaile @ASAustLit @corditepoetry @packetofchips @UQPbooks @SaraSalehTweets @GiramondoBooks @nolotusblossom @ella_esp @WestWordsWS Thanks very much @tynedaile !

[Paperback Bookshop @paperback_books]

⚡️SALON NEWS ⚡️

Join us on Tuesday 14th November for our last salon of the year: an evening of readings from Nick Roger Clarke, Amy Crutchfield, Paul Dalgarno, André Dao, Ella Skilbeck-Porter and Emily Spurr. 

For more info head to our salon page: https://t.co/UYu8FzWeFJ

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[Poetry Foundation @PoetryFound]

O to blot out this garden
to forget, to find a new beauty
in some terrible
wind-tortured place.
—H.D. was born #OnThisDay in 1886. #PoemOfTheDay https://t.co/HMLNQ22tO7

[Ella Skilbeck-Porter @ella__esp]

A few photos of my book out in the wild! Returning to its source 🌊

[Hannah McCann @binarythis]

Strike has started! Now at Raymond Priestly #unimelbstrikes