Best Australian Poetry 2008
By David Brooks

Best Australian Poetry 2008

Guest editor David Brooks

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The Best Australian Poetry celebrates the vibrancy and force of contemporary poetry in Australia. Guest editor David Brooks, a much admired poet in his own right, has put together a rich selection of powerful poems - elegant meditations, rapid sketches, and social commentaries - written by both emerging talents and established poets. Broad in the variety of poets and poetic styles, this superb volume is as surprising in its diversity as it is pleasurable to read.

ISBN: 9780702236549
Classification: Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Format: Paperback (198mm x 129mm x mm)
Pages: 156
Publish Date: 27-Oct-2008
Country of Publication: Australia

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0 star rating by Boomert - The Best of Australian Poetry 2008 by David Brooks 11 Jan 2010
It’s the sixth year of UQP’s ‘Best Australian Poetry’ series, and guest editor David Brooks, whose recent novel was shortlisted for the 2008 Miles Franklin award, invites us to once again sample the cream of contemporary Australian poetry. For the first time, poems from online literary journals have been included in the mix, and though a little shell-shocked from having so many to choose from, Brooks has settled on 40 poems by a range of young, new and established Australian poets, including Jaya Savige, Jennifer Maiden and Robert Adamson. Its key point of difference with the competing Black Inc. poetry series is the inclusion of contributor notes at the back, in which each poet reveals sometimes surprising details about the writing process and subject of their selected poem. Packaged for the Christmas market, for both the serious poetry devotee and casual reader to dip into, it features many treats, with several poems offering distinctly Australian impressions of everyday experiences, in both country and urban settings. Unfortunately, to my mind, it includes a few too many poems that are either self-referential or dotted with obscure references, which may affect the overall appeal of the volume for the casual reader.

Author Biography: David Brooks
David Brooks is a highly regarded novelist, essayist, and poet whose work has been widely anthologized and translated into several languages.

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