Find Australian Poetry Since 1788 Documented By Geoffrey Lehmann Offered In Volume

Poetry Sinceis a HUGE compilation of poems, songs, ballads, and more, This would be a fantastic informational text for students gradeand up, The authors offer a vast array of different types of poetry by Australian poets to explore, Once of the most interesting things is the Aboriginal songs included, It is a great place to experience something you probably wouldn't have the opportunity to experience otherwise, The authors also

chose to include short biographies of each poet before their work is presented, While there is way too many poems and way too many pages,to actually sit and read, it is rich with different poems to explore.
I think this would best be used as a resource for students who wanted to write their own poetry about Australia instead of sitting down and reading each page.
It could also be used as an exploration of each individual poet since a short biography is provided, The author Robert Gray has won many awards including the Age Book of the Year for Poetry,the NSW Premiers Award, the National Poetry Prize of the Adelaide Arts Festival, and the Victorian Premiers Award.
A useful reference work for those who are wish to have an overview of the history of poetry in Australia since European settlement.
Organised in chronological order it provides useful bios and notes, Christmas present from the rather ace SJP, It's a whopper, a freakin' whopper, Dipping in and our of it, Highlights include discovering the surrealist poet Jas Duke utter genius, Good to 'discover' and contextualise some of the greats including Patterson, Also, loved some of the poetry of Clive James loved a lot his genius poem, 'Bring me the sweat of Gabriella Sabatini'.
What a bulky mama of a book! I received this as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago, and finally slogging through it page by page.
The beauty and versatility of Australian poetry from the lastyears can often be unappreciated by the modern public in contrast to the past verse was such an important facet ofth century Aussie life.
Here, it is celebrated, and celebrated well,

Lehmann and Gray have not just skirted controversy they've plunged right into it, Their choice of poems will no doubt infuriate some areas of Australian culture, and I share some of that, The decision not to include A, D. Hope's masterful "Advice to Young Ladies" because it is, the editors mention, "too rhetorical", perhaps sums up this book, But I'm also delighted by the anthology, It's by no means definitive but what could be

Everyone will have their favourites for me, I'm delighted to see the Jindyworobaks well represented and those who don't quite cut the mustard, but isn't that poetry The first of its kind, this landmark poetry anthology contains the work of Australias major poets as well as lesserknown but equally affecting writers of Australian poetry since.
Ranging from concrete to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse, this work also features translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems.
With pieces fromAustralian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.
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