The Best Australian Poetry 2004

by Lawrence, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780702234446
• ISBN10: 0702234443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-09
• Publisher: Paul & Co Pub Consortium

Summary

The Best Australian Poetry series returns after an impressive debut in 2003 with a new volume that is original, stimulating and wide-ranging in its sympathies. Guest Editor Anthony Lawrence brings to this volume a passionate commitment to Australian poetry and his reputation as one of Australia's premier poets. Bearing the impress of his distinctive editorial mind, Lawrence's selection of the best forty poems published in Australian literary journals in the preceding year is dramatic and flamboyant, revealing an unquenchable passion for life immersed in the marvellous matter of lived reality.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Flag-tailed bird of paradise	p. 1
At Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur	p. 3
Wimmera Easter Sunday	p. 6
Appaloosa	p. 8
Dog bite	p. 10
The widow	p. 11
Objects of you in water	p. 12
Letters to the tremulous hand	p. 22
A seed, a crutch, a heart	p. 25
from Totem poem	p. 27
For Annie	p. 37
Signed Auguste Rodin	p. 39
Clovelly	p. 41
Ecce Hombre	p. 42
British Columbia field notes	p. 45
The awful truth	p. 53
Angel	p. 54
The happiness of winter	p. 56
El Nino	p. 58
Mood/tense	p. 61
Sugared path	p. 62
On the tongue	p. 64
Out of sight	p. 68
Your feet/love poem	p. 70
The road in the rear-view mirror at night	p. 72
Through the lattice door	p. 73
Pax Romana	p. 74
The platypus	p. 78
U-Bahn	p. 82
The paddock with the big tree in it	p. 83
Land	p. 85
Your house	p. 86
Totems	p. 87
Evidence	p. 90
Keys	p. 91
Happiness	p. 92
Seven New South Wales sonnet-forms	p. 93
Bats	p. 98
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting	p. 99
Heldentod	p. 101
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