Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm again as editor of this year's Best Australian Poems. Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Fiona Wright, Clive James, Lisa Gorton, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, John Kinsella, David Malou
The Best Australian Poems 2017
โ Scribed by Holland-Batt, Sarah (editor)
- Book ID
- 109891929
- Publisher
- Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 413 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781863959629
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โฆ Synopsis
Award-winning poet, critic, editor and academic Sarah Holland-Batt takes the helm again as editor of this year's Best Australian Poems.
Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Fiona Wright, Clive James, Lisa Gorton, Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Cate Kennedy and Les Murray.
Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of The Hazards (UQP, 2015), which won the poetry prize at the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and Aria (UQP, 2008), which won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Award, and the FAW Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted in both the New South Wales and Queensland Premiers' Literary Awards. She is presently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology and the poetry editor of Island.
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