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'Best of Australian Poetry is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2021 - 7 August 2022, the series, now in its second year, will explore how poetic responses to the contemporary moment develop with each passing year.
'The book opens with an introduction by its 2022 editors, award-winning and highly respected poets and editors, Jeanine Leanne and Judith Beveridge. Both Jeanine, a Wiradjuri poet, and Judith have extensive experience as poetry teachers, academics and poetry anthologists previously.
'The Best of Australian Poetry (BoAP) series is published by Australia's national poetry organisation, Australian Poetry, and will feature two different guest editors each year, to amplify the range of voices selected. It is funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and individual patrons.' (Publication summary)
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Contents
- A Poem in Honour of a Lioness Perfecting Her Balance of Inner/Outer Power, single work poetry (p. 1)
- Ableism Is the Pre-Existing Condition That Puts Us at Risk, single work poetry (p. 2)
- After Franz Marc, The Dreamer (1912), single work poetry (p. 3)
- All Markets Are All Universes, single work poetry (p. 4)
- Anyhow Poemi"for I,", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Art for Art's Sake, single work poetry (p. 6)
- Art That Moves, single work poetry (p. 9)
- Aubade, Allegro, single work poetry (p. 11)
- Australianesquei"Peter Porter wrote a sonnet sequence about Christopher Brennan", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Bees, single work poetry (p. 14)
- Being My Grandmothers (After Uluru), single work poetry (p. 15)
- Blame the Greenies, single work poetry (p. 17)
- Book of Hoursi"this is the poem from my dream I say / office hours are a myth / publishing poems is money for", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Briefly on the Mountaini"The human I live with", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Buried Light, single work poetry (p. 22)
- Buzz Words, single work poetry (p. 24)
- Canticle for a Dancing Mani"It has come to this, the embalmed fifties", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Case # 70, single work poetry (p. 26)
- Choice Cutsi"my blood is worth bottling, so I’m told as though", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Cicadas, single work poetry (p. 31)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Doing Our Best
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 82 no. 4 2023; (p. 195-198) Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021 anthology poetry ; Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022 anthology poetry 'After Black Inc.’s long-running Best Australian Poems series was discontinued in 2018, a ‘gap’ was left in the ‘market’. The publisher Australian Poetry stepped in, publishing the first Best of Australian Poems in early 2021, edited by Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. The second volume followed in early 2022, edited by Jeanine Leane and Judith Beveridge.' (Introduction)
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Doing Our Best
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 82 no. 4 2023; (p. 195-198) Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021 anthology poetry ; Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022 anthology poetry 'After Black Inc.’s long-running Best Australian Poems series was discontinued in 2018, a ‘gap’ was left in the ‘market’. The publisher Australian Poetry stepped in, publishing the first Best of Australian Poems in early 2021, edited by Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. The second volume followed in early 2022, edited by Jeanine Leane and Judith Beveridge.' (Introduction)
