The Best Australian Poems 2016 (The Best Australian Poems #14)

Martin Harrison, Michael Brennan, Lisa Brockwell, David Brooks, Kevin Brophy, Lachlan Brown, Pam Brown, Joanne Burns, Michelle Cahill, Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Robert Adamson, Julie Chevalier, Eileen Chong, Aidan Coleman, Stuart Cooke, M.T.C. Cronin, Nathan Curnow, Luke Davies, Sarah Day, Joel Deane, Jelena Dinic, Adam Aitken, Dan Disney, Lucy Dougan, Laurie Duggan, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Stephen Edgar, Anne Elvey, Michael Farrell, Liam Ferney, Toby Fitch, Lionel Fogarty, Jordie Albiston, Tina Giannoukos, Lisa Gorton, Robert Gray, Phillip Hall, Natalie Harkin, Dennis Haskell, Dominique Hecq, Paul Hetherington, Fiona Hile, L.K. Holt, Chris Andrews, Andy Jackson, Evelyn Araluen, Judith Beveridge, Ken Bolton, Peter Boyle


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The Best Australian Poems 2016 by Martin Harrison, Michael Brennan, Lisa Brockwell, David Brooks, Kevin Brophy, Lachlan Brown, Pam Brown, Joanne Burns, Michelle Cahill, Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Robert Adamson, Julie Chevalier, Eileen Chong, Aidan Coleman, Stuart Cooke, M.T.C. Cronin, Nathan Curnow, Luke Davies, Sarah Day, Joel Deane, Jelena Dinic, Adam Aitken, Dan Disney, Lucy Dougan, Laurie Duggan, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Stephen Edgar, Anne Elvey, Michael Farrell, Liam Ferney, Toby Fitch, Lionel Fogarty, Jordie Albiston, Tina Giannoukos, Lisa Gorton, Robert Gray, Phillip Hall, Natalie Harkin, Dennis Haskell, Dominique Hecq, Paul Hetherington, Fiona Hile, L.K. Holt, Chris Andrews, Andy Jackson, Evelyn Araluen, Judith Beveridge, Ken Bolton, Peter Boyle
‘Above all, poetry – for both its readers and its writers – is a form that demands attentiveness and active intelligence. It treats language as a volatile and charged commodity, and one whose subtleties and nuances are worth puzzling over.’ —Sarah Holland-Batt

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.

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