Notes on contributors. Debbie Lim -- Women in Classical Chinese love poems / Les Murray -- A dire season / Judith Beveridge -- A disaster / Chris Edwards -- A quick drink at the bar / Dan Disney -- An ordinary evening in Newtown / Laurie Duggan -- And then a cup of tea / Mal McKimmie -- Another chardin in need of cleaning / Ann Vickery -- As flames were my only witness / Russell Erwin -- As in the future when / Jal Nicholl -- At lerici / David Malouf -- Autoethnographic / Michael Brennan -- Basic hut methodology / Ella O'Keefe -- Black throated finch / Brett Dionysius -- Blind spot / Justin Clemens -- Bringing you home / Susan Fealy -- Busfire approaching / John Kinsella -- Chimney / Maria Takolander -- from Chinatown / Kim Cheng Boey -- City workers during morning rush hour, Collins Street, Melbourne, 2013 / Peter Bakowski -- Closed on Mondays / Pam Brown -- Co. Kerry / Paul Kane -- Coastline / David Musgrave -- Country Chinese restaurants / Mandy Sayer -- Crowded hour and the consonants / John Tranter -- Dandelion / Will Evans -- Darkness speaks / David McCooey -- Dawn / Sarah Day -- Diary poem : uses of Frank O'Hara / Jennifer Maiden -- Did you mean iteration? / Melinda Bufton -- Disappearing act / Felicity Plunkett -- Drowning dream / Bella Li -- Dual citizen / Tracy Ryan -- Dust / David Brooks -- Earth hour / David Malouf -- Edith / Andy Jackson -- Ellipsis / Jo Langdon -- from ephemeral waters / Kate Middleton -- Five abstratctions of blue / Paul Hetherington -- Five deaths / Tim Grey -- Floored / Bonny Cassidy -- Francis Webb at Ball's Head / Robert Adamson -- "Hindley Street" -- how to be perfect there / Kim Bolton -- Hotel / Mark Mahemoff -- Ich Möchte : a monument to my one date with J. Robery Oppenheimer's granddaughter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987 -- / Kent MacCarter -- In the desert / R.D. Wood -- Induct true legendary thrills bravery / Lionel G. Fogarty -- Inside Edward Hopper / Brenda Saunders -- Jivin' with Bonny Cassidy etc. / Jessica L. Wilkinson -- Last goodbyes in Havana / Sarah Holland-Batt -- Le cimetière de Montparnasse / Vivian Smith -- Leçons de Ténèbres / Clive James -- Little book of mourning / Kevin Hary -- Loans slip / Jane Gibian -- Lumière train / Darby Hudson -- Marrickville / Fiona Wright -- Mateship / Chris Andrews -- Mediterranean time / Andrew Sant -- Meeting the relatives / Richard Kelly Tipping -- Meeting with the same river / Bai Helin -- Melbourne ode / Matt Holden -- My husband's grave / Andy Kissane -- My singing empty hands / Shari Kocher -- Nostalghia / Carmen Leigh Keates -- Not in vain / Michael Farrell -- Nyirbator / Oscar Schwartz -- Ochre / Ali Cobby Eckermann -- Ode on love / Petra White -- Old Europe (2) / Adam Aitken -- On dreams / Diane Fahey -- On not getting my spray can signed by Mr Brainwash / Jaya Savige -- Outstretched arms / Lachlan Brown -- Pictor Ignotus / Louis Armand -- Plant poem / Claire Potter -- Poetry of the Taliban / Anthony Lawrence -- Pollen wind / Claire Gaskin -- Postcard for Marilla / James Stuart -- P.R.B / Cassandra Atherton -- Prophecy / Nathan Curnow -- Rally / Gig Ryan -- Regression to the mean / Aden Rolfe -- Renovations / Michelle Cahill -- Revealed / Laura Jan Shore -- Revisiting Yugoslavia : Rijeka, Coratia / Roanna Licari -- Rise and shine / Cameron Lowe -- Rupert in Japan / Paul Magee -- Season's greetings / Kate Lilley -- Self portrait at 65 / Geoffery Lehmann -- from Shaping the dark : Three readings of Tony Lloyd's oil on linen painting 'On a dark night you can see forever' / Robyn Rowland -- Snowy / Joanne Burns -- Soar / A. Frances Johnson -- Sorrowful / Jennifer Compton -- Spiritual / Ali Alizadeh -- from Stages of Balthazar (with a chorus of elders) / L.K. Holt -- Strange, unremarkably so / Anna Fern -- Street encounter / s.r -- from Succession / Brendan Ryan -- Summer / Nguyen Tien Hoang -- The bat corridor / Louise Oxley -- The break / Caitlin Maling -- The Brooklyn International motel / Ella Jeffery -- The conscience of Avimael Guzman / John Hawke -- The dark sisters / Robert Gray -- The dead are with us and you read it here / Kit Kelen -- The ear especially / Corey Wakeling -- The God of bone and antler / Daniel East -- The inevitable beauty of the viewer when faced with the partitionist tactics of the situationist lover / Fiona Hile -- The life inside / Judith Rodriguez -- The orchard / Hu Xian -- The owl painting / Thomas Shapcott -- The roadside bramble / Peter Minter -- The slide / Jill Jones -- from the Vanity of Australian wishes / Alan Wearne -- The view from GOMA / Angela Gardner -- The ward is new / Geoff Page -- To drag the saints back from heaven / Anne Elvey -- True listening in the palace of treasures / Michelle Leber -- Twenty questions / Peter Rose -- Under the radar / Stephen Edgar -- Up at the villa / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Valleys / Toby Fitch -- Warning / Ainslee Meredith -- Watching how a rain front stops / Martin Harrison -- Western landscapes with retreating horizons / Paul Mitchell -- Whale heart / Josephine Rowe -- What Frances farmer ate / Ivy Alvarez -- When God dies / Liam Ferney -- When you showed me the stars / Gemma White -- Who took the bee's greed for a sign / Eugene Dubnov -- Window onto the bay (after Kafka) / Christopher Konrad -- Women in Classical Chinese love poems / Debbie Lim -- Publication details -- Notes on contributors.
Summary:
This engaging collection presents the outstanding Australian poems of the last year - a fascinating array of voices and styles, subjects and moods. Including many of Australia's most admired literary figures as well as exciting newcomers, The Best Australian Poems 2013 celebrates the wonder and diversity of language.-- Publisher.
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.