60 Classic Australian Poems
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| Author | Geoff Page |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry anthology |
| Publisher | University of New South Wales Press |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 311 pp. |
| ISBN | 9781921410796 |
60 Classic Australian Poems is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008.[1]
The collection contains 60 poems from various sources and a commentary on each from the editor.[2]
- "The Sick Stockrider", Adam Lindsay Gordon
- "The Travelling Post Office", A. B. Paterson
- "Nationality", Mary Gilmore
- "Middleton's Rouseabout", Henry Lawson
- "Towards the Source : 1894-97: 2", Christopher Brennan
- "The Orange Tree", John Shaw Neilson
- "The Play (The Sentimental Bloke)", C. J. Dennis
- "I'm Like All Lovers" (aka "Poems XIV"), Lesbia Harford
- "Beach Burial", Kenneth Slessor
- "The Wind at Your Door", Robert D. FitzGerald
- "The Mayan Books", A. D. Hope
- "The Commercial Traveller's Wife", Ronald McCuaig
- "The Children March", Elizabeth Riddell
- "Baiamai's Never-Failing Stream", William Hart-Smith
- "Mapooram", Roland Robinson
- "Death of a Whale", John Blight
- "Leopard-Skin", Douglas Stewart
- "On the Boundary", J. S. Manifold
- "Remittance Man", Judith Wright
- "Windy Gap", David Campbell
- "Because", James McAuley
- "Suburban Sonnet", Miriam Stone
- "The Three Fates", Rosemary Dobson
- "Gifts", Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- "The Witnesses", Dorothy Hewett
- "Harry", Francis Webb
- "Experiment", Bruce Beaver
- "Mort aux Chats," Peter Porter
- "Secret Policeman", Vincent Buckley
- "Drifters", Bruce Dawe
- "The Year of the Foxes", David Malouf
- "Other People", Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- "Flying Fox", Thomas Shapcott
- "There Was a Time", Randolph Stow
- "In-Flight Note", Judith Rodriguez
- "The Mitchells (Dedication, Written Last : For the Vernacular Republic)", Les Murray
- "Mousepoem", J. S. Harry
- "In Town for the March", Clive James
- "Parenthood", Geoffrey Lehmann
- "To a Married Man", Kate Llewellyn
- "Young Woman Gathering Lemons", Jan Owen
- "The Publisher's Apprentice", Geoff Page
- "North Light", John Tranter
- "Canticle for the Bicentennial Dead", Robert Adamson
- "The Dying Light", Robert Gray
- "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man", Michael Dransfield
- "Eclipse", Alex Skovron
- "A World of Our Own", Alan Wearne
- "A U Boat Morning, 1914", Alan Gould
- "Costume Jewellery", Jennifer Maiden
- "Europe: A Guide for Ken Searle (Europe: A Guide)", John Forbes
- "Another Country", Stephen Edgar
- "The Last Day", Kevin Hart
- "Exuberance with Bloody Hands", Dorothy Porter
- "Woman Playing the Glass Harmonica", Jennifer Harrison
- "Bahadour", Judith Beveridge
- "The Drive", Anthony Lawrence
- "Shooting the Dogs", Philip Hodgins
- "Drowning in Wheat", John Kinsella
- "Girls' Night on Long Island", Bronwyn Lea