His debut book, rock flight was released with Giramondo (AU) and Prototype (UK) in 2024, and with New Directions (US) in 2025. rock flight won the Mary Gilmore Award and the NSWLA Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. It was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. rock flight is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and the Forward Prize for Poetry. Hasib is poetry editor of Loom and is currently working on his second book, funded by Creative Australia. His writing has been published in Meanjin, Liminal, Overland and Australian Poetry, among others.
2026 Artists
Hasib Hourani
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer living on unceded Gadigal Country.
Featured events
Poetry by the Pool
5 stanzas thanks!
Writing as Resistance
with Hasib Hourani
Oscillations
Enjoy the rhythmic pairings of poets and experimental sounds.
Come As You Are
Four of our poets take on the topic of thinking beyond the restrictions.
A Bird Came Down The Walk
Start your day with an experience where nature and language meet.
