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@southerlylitmag.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:33 PM

This week on the Southerly Blog, Chloe Cannell explores the nuances of the old adage "those who can't, do teach", attending to the realities of work in academia today alongside her own path to teaching.

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A cover image for the blog. It reads “Those who can’t do, teach: A writer without credits”. On a new line, it reads “Chloe Cannell”. An excerpt from the blog. It reads, “I love teaching. In a recent teaching team meeting we were asked to tell the story of how we came to teaching and why we do it. As a writer of stories for teenagers, I used to come back to the cliché of having wanted to be a high school teacher, in order to communicate directly with young people as free research while doing a job with purpose that would pay the bills more than writing ever could. When I discovered Creative Writing PhDs were an option, and I could be paid a stipend for a few years, it unlocked a path that felt right. I could continue the research, writing, and storytelling process that I cherished during my undergraduate degree for a few years longer. Maybe I’d finally have the time and freedom to write, polish, and submit to all those literary journals I didn’t have time for while working and studying. But the quiet part I didn’t say out loud is, ‘you make time for the things you care about’. This is not a confession that I’ve neve
@southerlylitmag.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 10:00 PM

This week on the Southerly Blog, Axel-Nathaniel Rose explores the “travel” of poetry—attending to Omar Sakr’s “Algo in the Genocide” and the uses of poetry in protest.

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A cover image for the blog. It reads, 'On the “travel” of poetry and Omar Sakr’s “Algo in the Genocide”' by Axel-Nathaniel RoseAn excerpt from the blog. It reads, "Mainstream Australian publishers stopped investing in poetry long ago, and while Australia’s small presses (University of Queensland Press, Five Islands Press, Puncher and Wattman, Calanthe, Giramondo…) have continued to develop, publish, and promote Australian poetry, poetry remains unsung in much of Australia’s public literary life. Despite this, poetry lives: it travels. Organisations form and sustain it: The Bankstown Poetry Slam, Red Room Poetry, Sweatshop Western Sydney, the Australian Poetry Board of Directors. Much has been written on the fragmentary and self-contained nature of many of these poetic ventures; how much do they feed each other? How unified is their mission? Seeing Omar Sakr’s words clinging to the bodies of hundreds of people from protest to protest, read by thousands in person, read by millions from their screens, read aloud to one another, hearing them breaking in my own throat ..." (Character limit reached.)