One Last Poem / Billy Marshall Stoneking Black Winged Stilts / Robert Adamson -- In The Billy / Adam Aitken -- Sing Baghdad / Adam Aitken -- Bar-and-Grill / Adam Aitken -- this light exists / Jordie Albiston -- Advanced Souvlaki / Chris Andrews -- Learning Bunqjalung on Tharawal / Evelyn Araluen -- A Panegyric for Toads / Judith Beveridge -- Dark Heart / Ken Bolton -- Discovered in a rock pool / Peter Boyle -- There and Then / Michael Brennan -- Waiting on Imran Khan / Lisa Brockwell -- The Pig / David Brooks -- Siren / Kevin Brophy -- Suspended Belief / Lachlan Brown -- Rooibos / Pam Brown -- bound / Joanne Burns -- Car Lover / Michelle Cahill -- Cloaca Maxima / Elizabeth Campbell -- Axe derby / Bonny Cassidy -- Plan B / Julie Chevalier -- Magnolia / Eileen Chong -- Secondary / Aidan Coleman -- Hinterland / Stuart Cooke -- ABOVE US / MTG Cronin -- Swimming (my lane) / Nathan Curnow -- Heisenberg Saying Goodbye to Mum at Lilyfield / Luke Davies -- Wooden Horse / Sarah Day -- Following the many elbows of the Yarra / Joel Deane -- The Silence of Siskins / Jelena Dinic -- untitled: villaknelle xvi / Dan Disney -- Right Through Me / Lucy Dougan -- A northern winter / Laurie Duggan -- Black Deaths in Custody / Ali Cobby Eckermann -- Hearts and Minds / Stephen Edgar -- working from home to do list / Anne Elvey -- Death of a Year / Michael Farrell -- Requiem / Liam Ferney -- Janus / Toby Fitch -- Ambition Man / Lionel G. Fogarty -- XXXI / Tina Giannoukos -- from Empirical / Lisa Gorton -- The Latter Days / Robert Gray -- Royalty / Phillip Hall -- Cultural Precinct / Natalie Harkin -- Tinnitus / Dennis Haskell -- Archive Fever / Dominique Hecq -- Black Dress / Paul Hetherington -- Relocation of the Big Prawn / Fiona Hile -- Modern Woman Sonnets / LK Holt -- The change room / Andy Jackson -- The Jews of Hamburg Speak Out / Lisa Jacobson -- Plot Points / Clive James -- First contact, Kakadu / Virginia Jealous -- Diary of an Anti-elegist / A. Frances Johnson -- In Flight Entertainment / Jill Jones -- takk for alt / Kit Kelen -- Limbo / Cate Kennedy -- Spatial Realignment of Jam Tree Gully / John Kinsella -- Getting away with it / Andy Kissane -- Foxstruck / Shari Kocher -- Bringing It All Back Home / Simeon Kronenberg -- Kangarilla, Summer, 2016 / Verity Laughton -- Wax Cathedral / Anthony Lawrence -- Blowjob (kama sutra) / Bronwyn Lea -- Poem / Emma Lew -- Lovestore / Kate Lilley -- A House in Switzerland / Debbie Lim -- Possibly / Kate Llewellyn -- Pastoral / 'Asset management' / Cameron Lowe -- Orchards / Jennifer Maiden -- Intimacy / Caitlin Maling -- Visitation on Myrtle Street / David Malouf -- Invisible Cities / David McCooey -- Study of a Lion / Kate Middleton -- Craft / Peter Minter -- Nuclear Family Bees / Les Murray -- Shakespeare & the State Library / n.o. -- Letter from the swimming pool / Ella O'Keefe -- Cyborg me / Meredi Ortega -- Ekphrasis / Geoff Page -- from Hawes - God's Intruder / Charmaine Papertalk-Green and John Kinsella -- 'A Decidedly Pathological Process: / Felicity Plunkett -- Weeping Foxes / Claire Potter -- Shabnam Nightwish / Hessom Razavi -- The Subject of Feeling / Peter Rose -- Night Watch / Robyn Rowland -- Astronomical Twilight / Gig Ryan -- Smartraveller / Tracy Ryan -- ghosting the ghetto / Omar Sakr -- Hossegor / Jaya Savige -- The body / Thomas Shapcott -- Around the World / Alex Skovron -- Argument / Maria Takolander -- Jakhan Pollyeva / Tim Thorne -- Young Folly / John Tranter -- Invisible Spears / Ellen Van Neerven -- An Object exists only as it might exist to Another / Ann Vickery -- Altogether Elsewhere / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- A Plein-Air Artist Reflects on Timing / Simon West -- On This / Petra White -- FAUNE et JEUX / Jessica L. Wilkinson -- Poppies, Katoomba / Fiona Wright -- Self Publishing / Ouyang Yu -- Boat Song / Fay Zwicky -- One Last Poem / Billy Marshall Stoneking
Summary:
Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm as editor of this year?s Best Australian Poems. Demonstrating the diversity, inventive brilliance and dynamism of our country?s finest poets, this collection features work from both rising stars and well-known figures, and presents a dazzling array of themes and styles. Whether addressing biotechnology or domestic violence, migrant experience or the natural world, the poems in this anthology are sure to inspire, provoke and move.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.