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Best Australian Poems 2016
Best Australian Poems 2016 | Sarah Holland-Batt
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'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. Poets include Martin Harrison, Judith Beveridge, Clive James, Keven Brophy, Joanne Burns, Les Murray, Pam Brown, Eileen Chong, Luke Davies, Laurie Duggan, Geoff Page, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Toby Fitch, Robert Gray, Lisa Gorton, Natalie Harkin, John Kinsella, Felicity Plunkett, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Billy Marshall Stoneking, Cate Kennedy, David Malouf, Julie Chevalier, Lionel G. Fogarty and many more...
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MariettaSG
Best Australian Poems 2016 | Sarah Holland-Batt
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Great poem! Fun about being a writer. Made me smile.

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Best Australian Poems 2016 | Sarah Holland-Batt
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MariettaSG Claw the membrane- what a line. 6y
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Incarceration rates still high: why? What does this say about our racism Australia?

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Heisenberg Saying Goodbye to Mum at Lilyfield.

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Best Australian Poems 2016 | Sarah Holland-Batt

Above Us by MTC Cronin - poem speaks to me of bushfire.

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MariettaSG
Best Australian Poems 2016 | Sarah Holland-Batt
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Combining two loves - bliss!

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Best Australian Poems 2016 | Sarah Holland-Batt

Patio: "as if beauty could be sucked from the world. Directly. Without irony." Martin Harrison.