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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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- In Memoriam, JB
- Winter, Hospital Bed
- cobalt
- Gypsy
- Reunion Song
- Flying Foxes, Wingham Brush
- The Grey Parrot
- Time is a river, time is a bridge
- Reach & Ambition
- Eleutheria
- Forty-one degrees
- The Shower Stall
- The Night Coming
- Soft Targets
- compensation
- Minor Domestic
- c’est l’homme
- another step away
- Kumera
- Two Women
- Fallen Myrtle Trunk
- meadows empty of him, animal eyes, impersonal as glass
- Five Threnodies for Maralinga: Part III
- Reservoir
- I Saw the Devil in the Cane Fields
- Barnacle
- The Throne
- Six Afterimages
- Distance
- The Apology Day breakfast
- La Vita Nuova
- Putting on your boots
- Because, like the weather
- The Art of Birds
- The Snake
- For Cornflowers to Sing
- Main Street Social
- Stones
- 27 Materialisations of Sydney Cloud
- Before the Storm
- The Western District
- Unkempt if You Will
- Empirical VII
- Inheritance
- Heart’s Core Lament
- The Tent
- Acrocorinth
- Zero Degrees
- The Hanged Man
- Inchings and Belongings: After Paul Strand
- Mister Lincoln or Camp David
- Song not for you
- Head Wound
- Barns in Charlevoix
- Greenfield development
- Murray andante
- Almost Pause/ Pareidolia
- To Paint the Inside of a Church
- On Loss
- A New Norcia Subset
- Windborne Avenue
- The Corpse Flower Sketch
- A Tasting
- Zeitgeist
- Over the River Memory
- Rattling the Forms
- In Memoriam
- The Novelist Elena Ferrante
- Metronome
- Fisheries Raid
- One Way or Another
- Remembering Sandstone Country
- The Spanish Revelation
- Anna Karenina
- Bombala
- The Hidden Side to Love
- Pigeons of the Dome
- The Lowlands of Moyne
- Muzzled Altar
- Homeschooling
- Strange Music
- Fort Dada
- Nudge Nudge
- Not to be
- A Note to Alvaro
- Nox
- Shells
- When I am Gardening, When You Ask
- Waking
- The Habit of Wings
- Horse
- Crossing Galata, Istanbul
- Even Solomon in All His Glory
- Long-On
- The Barassi Variations
- A Quiet Morning
- Apollon Musagète
- The First Four Hours
- A queer and sultry summer
- III
- Publication Details
- Notes on Contributors
- Back Cover