The Best Australian Poetry 2006

by Judith Beveridge, Martin Duwell (Editor), Bronwyn Lea (Editor)

Guest Editor Judith Beveridge, one of Australia’s leading poets, has produced a highly satisfying and stimulating addition to The Best Australian Poetry series. In making her selection of the best 40 poems from Australia’s literary journals, Beveridge – one of Australia’s leading poets – has searched for poems that enact ‘a serious showdown between the word and the poet’. Passionate, vigorous and filled with visitations and mysterious narratives, The Best Australian Poetry 2006 is the liveliest gathering of Australian poetry.About the Author Judith Beveridge has published three books of poetry. Her most recent collection is Wolf Notes (Giramondo, 2003) which won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2004.

Genres: Poetry

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Hayley]

Favourites:


"Low at the Edge of the Sands" - Kevin Gillam
"Water" - Philip Hammial
"The Taste of Hours" - Jennifer Harrison
"About the Self" - Martin Harrison
"Non-Core Promise" - Philip Harvey
"Visiting Melboune" - Andy Kissane
"Equation" - Anthony Lawrence
"How the Sun Works" - Jason Nelson
"Waterview Street" - Dorothy Porter
"The Man with a Shattered World" - Philip Salom

[D.J. and Books Harrington · Rating 4 out of 5]

In depth poetry. Very good.