The Best Australian Poems 2007
The Best Australian Poems 2007

Author: Peter Rose

Publisher: Black Incorporated Agenda

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781863954174

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Following on from the success of previous years' Best Poemsanthology, new editor Peter Rose is taking only the best of our established poets, as well as discovering hidden gems by previously unpublished writers. The Best Australian Poems 2007is the ultimate showcase of Australian poetry.

Letters to the Tremulous Hand
Letters to the Tremulous Hand

Author: Elizabeth Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 9780977578764

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Elizabeth Campbell's poems always seem daimonic, running along an edge of surprise. They are in fact written very slowly, sculpted to a dense inner clarity. It helps that she is a master of the rhythms of free-verse lines, their questings, turns, and landings. She explores the mind's readiness both to misconceive and ti find a solid world. Her poems are full of tangible objects yielding significance, whether the theme is travelling, singing, dreams, or sacred or secular love - or a recurrent observation of horses: their physical presence, and the veering of their barely graspable consciousness. The ten poems of the title sequence, addressed to a little-known-about medieval scribe, scrupulously view the smallness of the leavings of lives underlying history. These are a remarkable meditation on thinking and solitude.

The Best Australian Poems 2012
The Best Australian Poems 2012

Author: John Tranter

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1921870826

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In this book, the editor selects the most vigorous, varied and interesting poems of the last year. This sparkling collection shines a light on the phantasmagorial nature of poetry, evoking images, transformations and events that range from the playful to the melancholy by way of exuberance and satire.

The Best Australian Poems 2011
The Best Australian Poems 2011

Author: John Tranter

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1921870451

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'What a rich, strange and diverse lot these poems turned out to be ... I suspect that these baroque and potent imaginings can only have come into existence as fragments of dreams or nightmares.' - John Tranter In "The Best Australian Poems 2011," celebrated poet John Tranter selects the most vigorous, varied and interesting poems of the last year. This sparkling collection shines a light on the phantasmagorical nature of poetry, evoking images, transformations and events that range from the playful to the melancholy by way of exuberance and satire. Featuring award-winning poems alongside brand-new works, as well as a mix of emerging and renowned poets, this is a volume of surreal beauty and emotional resonance. Poets include: Robert Adamson, Ali Alizadeh, Jude Aquilina, Ken Bolton, Pam Brown, joanne burns, Sarah Day, Bruce Dawe, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Angela Gardner, Geoff Goodfellow, Lisa Gorton, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Holland-Batt, Jill Jones, Cate Kennedy, Andy Kissane, Mike Ladd, Kate Lilley, Jennifer Maiden, David McCooey, Les Murray, Ouyang Yu, Felicity Plunkett, Peter Rose, Gig Ryan, Jaya Savige, Thomas Shapcott, Craig Sherborne, Pete Spence, Peter Steele, Maria Takolander, Andrew Taylor, Tim Thorne, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Alan Wearne and many more...

Australian Poetry Since 1788
Australian Poetry Since 1788

Author: Geoffrey Lehmann

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 1081

ISBN-13: 1742241093

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A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.

Burning Bright
Burning Bright

Author: Caroline Caddy

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9781921361876

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Award-winning poet Caroline Caddy's latest collection is an acutely observed meditation on her encounters with the world. From the south coast of Western Australia to China, her poems chart a breathtaking journey across landscapes, punctuated by departure and return. From these poems, the reader may be rewarded with 'that human thrill / of sensing a pattern beginning to form / the delight at finding it doesn't' ('Shanghai renga'). The Australian Book Review said Caddy's 'carefully crafted poems are refreshing journeys of discovery which open up unfamiliar places, bring them potently alive.' Quadrant praised her 'stunningly original descriptions' while The West Australian said Caddy 'is to be hailed as a master poet with a style and panache all of her own'.

The Incredible Sestina Anthology
The Incredible Sestina Anthology

Author: Daniel Nester

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1938912373

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More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.