Description |
xiii, 169 pages ; 21 cm |
Series |
Best Australian Poems |
Contents |
The Consolation of Philosophy / Michael Sharkey -- My Friend's Mum / Louise Carter -- When Figs Fly / Jane Downing -- Sweet Potato / Fiona Wright -- A Phoney Poem / Victoria McGrath -- Cleopatra / Petra White -- 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.' / Jill Jones -- Physics / Jennifer Compton -- Victoria and Tony, 5: The Hunter / Jennifer Maiden -- Popular Culture / Steve Evans -- Dawnlines. / Nigel Roberts -- Summer in Melbourne / Kevin Hart -- And We Had Hands / Alan Gould -- Historian / Ron Heard -- Yacht / Jennifer Mackenzie -- Bloom / Eileen Chong -- Open Slam / Alex Skovron -- Bloodlines, Stud Breeding / Russel Erwin -- Mothers & Daughters / Billy Marshall Stoneking -- Dream mother / Rozanna Lilley -- Adhesive / Roland Leach -- Knife / Maria Takolander -- What Was Left / Paul Hetherington -- My Father's Body / Mran-Maree Laing -- Three Lemons / John Tranter -- At the Movies / Gary Allen -- The Phantom / Robert Adamson -- Three Men / Anthony Lawrence -- Her Brother is Dead / John Foulcher -- My Brother Cannot Sleep / Tony Page -- Plantagenet in the Park / Peter Rose -- The red haired woman buying a cigarette lighter at the Brunswick Street 7-11 / Michael Crane -- Bump & Grind / Lucy Dougan -- Fascination / Dennis Haskell -- Molly / Andy Jackson -- Monster (0.2 Reloaded) / Samuel Wagan Watson -- Borroloola Blue / Phillip Hall -- Kulila / Ali Cobby Eckermann -- Microcosmos / Brenda Saunder -- Uluru / Lisa Brockwell -- Grandpa's Boys / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Luck / Robyn Rowland -- Resurrection / Suzanne Edgar -- Questions for a Young Republican Militiaman / B N Oakman -- A Quality of Daring / Paolo Totaro -- Window seat / Andrew McDonald -- Blondi / Joe Dolce -- After War / Lin van Hek -- Angel / John Upton -- Ho's Secret Weapon / Rod Usher -- Across the Universe / Brendan Ryan -- Freehold / Thom Sullivan -- Fallen women / Olga Pavlinova Olenich -- A Cardinal Sin / Geoff Goodfellow -- A you I speak to / Anne Elvey -- Wolf / Alyson Miller -- A Thousand Characters / Luke Beesley -- Party of Thieves / Gig Ryan -- O California / Sarah Holland-Batt -- Up and Down / Murray Jennings -- Lear Jet / Chloe Wilson -- Flying in to Rome / Jakob Ziguras -- Observations in the Café Comercial, Madrid / Peter Bakowski -- Val di Noto, Sicily / Luke Fischer -- Oblivion / Jodie Hollander -- Everything about us / Jane Williams -- Freddie flies home (Dili peak-hour) / Paul Cliff -- Roadhouse Sestina / Susan Hampton -- Plum (b) / Cassandra Atherto -- The wild grammar of leeches / Rachael Mead -- A spring day like this / Brook Emery -- Speaking bluntly / Sarah Rice -- Glen Hansard Plays the House / Andy Kissane -- How To Be a Better Elvis / David McCooey -- 3 poems / Joan Kerr -- The Sapling / Peter Lach-Newinsky -- Caught Black Handed / Judy Johnson -- Queue-jumping / Anthony Lynch -- As Wasps Fly Upwards / Judith Beveridge -- from Empirical / Lisa Gorton -- The Quick Brown Fox / Michael Sariban -- A Chicken's Head / Sarah Day -- The Gate / David Brooks -- Bear / Michelle Cahill -- Black Sheep / Jude Aquilina -- from Three Euclidean Poems / Jordie Albiston -- Firstly / Kevin Brophy -- Ward / Les Wicks -- Something Like a Prayer / K A Nelson -- In Rehab / Fay Zwicky -- Emergency Flight / Jamie Grant -- Vertigo / Les Murray -- After a Girl Goes Missing / Caitlin Maling -- Aneurysm / Andrew Burke -- The Art of the Fugue / Stephen Edgar -- Jack / Tony Lintermans -- A Wake / Angela Smith -- In Memoriam C K / Vivian Smith -- The Girl from Dalby / Bruce Dawe -- Japanese Maple / Clive James |
Summary |
The Best Australian Poems is our annual poetry anthology, showcasing the immense and diverse poetic talent from the country's best and emerging writers. Geoff Page returns for a second year as editor |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- 21st century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 -- Poetry http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001678 -- Collections
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Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Author |
Page, Geoff, 1940- editor of compilation
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LC no. |
2015462663 |
ISBN |
1863957790 (paperback) |
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9781863957793 (paperback) |
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