The Penguin book of modern Australian poetry

This broad selection of Australian poets begins with Kenneth Slessor, and offers a challenging view of 'early modern' poetry up until the 1960s. It also presents the decade of turmoil from 1965 to 1975 in a new light, identifying currents of energy among the younger writers and balancing new reputations with old. The years from 1965 to the 1990s are revealed as a time of growing vigour and diversity. In this new anthology, Tranter and Mead bring together an exciting range of poetry—the most complex and yet the most direct and sensual form of writing. `This book answers the need for a widely-representative and credible anthology of modern Australian poetry, as seen from the last decade of the twentieth century. The emphasis is on enjoyment. In our experience, poets don't write poems merely to be graded, studied or analysed; they write them, above all, to create for readers the enjoyment of a complex and intensely aesthetic experience. In collecting these poems, we've kept that simple fact firmly in mind.' John Tranter and Philip Mead