The Best Australian Poems 2017
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The Best Australian Poems 2017

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

The Best Australian Poems 2017

About this book

Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm again as editor of this year's Best Australian Poems. Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Fiona Wright, Clive James, Lisa Gorton, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Cate Kennedy and Les Murray.Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of The Hazards (UQP, 2015), which won the poetry prize at the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and Aria (UQP, 2008), which won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Award, and the FAW Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted in both the New South Wales and Queensland Premiers' Literary Awards. She is presently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology and the poetry editor of Island.

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Information

Publisher
Black Inc.
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781863959629
eBook ISBN
9781925435917
Subtopic
Poésie

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. In Memoriam, JB
  7. Winter, Hospital Bed
  8. cobalt
  9. Gypsy
  10. Reunion Song
  11. Flying Foxes, Wingham Brush
  12. The Grey Parrot
  13. Time is a river, time is a bridge
  14. Reach & Ambition
  15. Eleutheria
  16. Forty-one degrees
  17. The Shower Stall
  18. The Night Coming
  19. Soft Targets
  20. compensation
  21. Minor Domestic
  22. c’est l’homme
  23. another step away
  24. Kumera
  25. Two Women
  26. Fallen Myrtle Trunk
  27. meadows empty of him, animal eyes, impersonal as glass
  28. Five Threnodies for Maralinga: Part III
  29. Reservoir
  30. I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
  31. Barnacle
  32. The Throne
  33. Six Afterimages
  34. Distance
  35. The Apology Day breakfast
  36. La Vita Nuova
  37. Putting on your boots
  38. Because, like the weather
  39. The Art of Birds
  40. The Snake
  41. For Cornflowers to Sing
  42. Main Street Social
  43. Stones
  44. 27 Materialisations of Sydney Cloud
  45. Before the Storm
  46. The Western District
  47. Unkempt if You Will
  48. Empirical VII
  49. Inheritance
  50. Heart’s Core Lament
  51. The Tent
  52. Acrocorinth
  53. Zero Degrees
  54. The Hanged Man
  55. Inchings and Belongings: After Paul Strand
  56. Mister Lincoln or Camp David
  57. Song not for you
  58. Head Wound
  59. Barns in Charlevoix
  60. Greenfield development
  61. Murray andante
  62. Almost Pause/ Pareidolia
  63. To Paint the Inside of a Church
  64. On Loss
  65. A New Norcia Subset
  66. Windborne Avenue
  67. The Corpse Flower Sketch
  68. A Tasting
  69. Zeitgeist
  70. Over the River Memory
  71. Rattling the Forms
  72. In Memoriam
  73. The Novelist Elena Ferrante
  74. Metronome
  75. Fisheries Raid
  76. One Way or Another
  77. Remembering Sandstone Country
  78. The Spanish Revelation
  79. Anna Karenina
  80. Bombala
  81. The Hidden Side to Love
  82. Pigeons of the Dome
  83. The Lowlands of Moyne
  84. Muzzled Altar
  85. Homeschooling
  86. Strange Music
  87. Fort Dada
  88. Nudge Nudge
  89. Not to be
  90. A Note to Alvaro
  91. Nox
  92. Shells
  93. When I am Gardening, When You Ask
  94. Waking
  95. The Habit of Wings
  96. Horse
  97. Crossing Galata, Istanbul
  98. Even Solomon in All His Glory
  99. Long-On
  100. The Barassi Variations
  101. A Quiet Morning
  102. Apollon Musagète
  103. The First Four Hours
  104. A queer and sultry summer
  105. III
  106. Publication Details
  107. Notes on Contributors
  108. Back Cover