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Two Centuries of Australian Poetry
Features: * Themes include the Aboriginal world, Migrant experience and Multiculturalism, sport, environment, ecology, women's experiences, cities, workplaces, war and relationships* Traditional verse, free verse and performance poetry are also explored* Indexes which provide comparisons of authors, themes, and poetic forms.
Australian Poetry Since 1788
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.
Australian Poems in Perspective
Takes a close and critical look at Australia's most notable poetry. this book is in fact a collection of critical essays, each containing at least one poem of significant Australian poet. The writers of the commentaries are established critics (some of them ares also poets), who are familiar not only with Australian poetry but also with English, American and European literature generally, for one of the main objects of the book is to take a fresh look at the most famous and some of the most notable recent Australian poems in the context of poetry generally.
New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry
This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry. Deliberately designed as a dialogue between poets, each of the four clusters presented here—“Indigeneities”; “Political Landscapes”; “Space, Place, Materiality”; “Revising an Australian Mythos”—models how poetic communities in Australia continue to grow in alliance toward certain constellated ideas. Exploring the ethics of creative production in a place that continues to position capital over culture, property over community, each of the twenty essays in this anthology takes the subject of Australian poetry definitively beyond Eurocentrism and white privilege. By pushing back against nationalizing mythologies that have, over the last 200 years since colonization, not only narrativized the logic of instrumentalization but rendered our lands precarious, this book asserts new possibilities of creative responsiveness within the Australian sensorium.
The Landscape of Australian Poetry
"In the nineteenth century, landscape was a preoccupation of poetry everywhere, but in Australia it did much more than reflect a fashionable trend abroad. It was not merely a romantic impulse that fed this Australian concern with 'country'. The poets were pioneers: they sought a vision, but they sought a homestead too. They were looking for their own country... A purpose of The Landscape of Australian Poetry is to show how this happened, by following, not the history of all poetry in Australia, but the progressive development of one particular image. Its focus remains on the landscape-image, which provides the key to the rest"--
Australian Poetry
This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.
100 Australian Poems
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The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
Selected by one of the world's leading poets, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse has been acclaimed by critics such as Helen Gardner and Peter Porter as the finest anthology of its kind. It surveys the best and most characterful Australian poetry from the Dreamtime to the mid-1990s. For this new edition, many of Murray's earlier selections have been revised, with replacement work from key poets, and 26 new poets have been added, including John A. Scott, Alison Croggon, John Kinsella, and Craig Sherborne.
