New Oxford Book of Australian Verse

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New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
OxfordAustralianVerseCover.jpg
3rd edition cover
AuthorLes Murray (editor)
Cover artistJoseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPoetry anthology
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
1986
Media typePrint
Pages438
ISBN 978-0-19-553994-3
OCLC 36556974
821.008/0994 21
LC Class PR9615.25 .N49 1996

The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse is a major anthology of Australian poetry edited by the poet Les Murray. It was first published in 1986 and since has been expanded twice. [1]

Contents

The anthology gives a broad view of Australian poetry. It ranges in time from Indigenous Australian oral poetry composed before colonisation up to the late twentieth century. Except for dates it is without the contextualising apparatus of biographies and annotations: "The absence of notes and other prose apparatus is intended to focus attention solely on the poetry, and to leave room for more of." Another uncommon feature is the inclusion of Indigenous oral poems, which are attributed in the book to the language group of their sources.

Poets in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse

Robert Adamson – Allen Afterman – Alan Alexander – Marion Alexopoulos – Richard James Allen – Ethel Anderson – Joan Aronsten – Dorothy Auchterlonie – Awabakal people – Lex Banning – Bruce Beaver – Judith Beveridge – John Blight – Barcroft Boake – Francis Brabazon – E. J. Brady – J. J. Bray – Christopher Brennan – John Le Gay Brereton – Doris Brett – R. F. Brissenden – Vincent Buckley – Ada Cambridge – David Campbell – Gary Catalano – Marcus Clarke – Hal Colebatch – Laurence Collinson – Jennifer Compton – William W. Coxon – Julian Croft – Alison Croggon – Harry Cummins – Victor Daley – Jack Davis – R. R. Davidson – Arthur Davies – Bruce Dawe – C. J. Dennis – James Devaney – Rosemary Dobson – Michael Dransfield – John Dunmore Lang – Max Dunn – Geoffrey Dutton – Will Dyson – Ted Egan – Louis Esson – Steve Evans – Diane Fahey – Barron Field – Mary Finnin – Robert D. FitzGerald – Conal Fitzpatrick – John Foulcher – John Forbes – David Foster – Mary Eliza Fullerton ('E') – Katherine Gallagher – Silvana Gardner – Leon Gellert – Barbara Giles – Mary Gilmore – Peter Goldsworthy – W. T. Goodge – Alan Gould – Paul L. Grano – Jamie Grant – Robert Gray – Gumaitj people – Robin Gurr – Rodney Hall – Philip Hammial – Susan Hampton – Lyn Hard – Lesbia Harford – W. E. Harney – Charles Harpur – Max Harris – J. S. Harry – Kevin Hart – P. J. Hartigan (John O'Brien) – William Hart-Smith – Gwen Harwood – Dennis Haskell – Nicholas Hasluck – Charles W. Hayward – Kristen Henry – Graeme Hetherington – Paul Hetherington – Dorothy Hewett – A. D. Hope – Robert Harris – Philip Hodgins – Harry Hooton – Barry Humphries – Rex Ingamells – Clive James – Kate Jennings – Martin Johnston – Evan Jones – Kamilaroi people – Nancy Keesing – Henry Kendall – John Kinsella – Andy Kissane – Peter Kocan – C. J. Koch – Grandfather Koori – Martin Langford – Eve Langley – Andrew Lansdown – Louis Lavater – Anthony Lawrence – Henry Lawson – Joyce Lee – Geoffrey Lehmann – Francis Letters – Jack Lindsay – Kate Llewellyn – Robert Lowe – Frederick Macartney – James McAuley – Hugh McCrae – Ronald McCuaig – Nan McDonald – Roger McDonald – Jack McGuire – Gordon Mackay-Warna – Dorothea Mackellar – Kenneth Mackenzie – Rhyll McMaster – Francis MacNamara (Frank the Poet) – David McNicoll – Jennifer Maiden – David Malouf – John Manifold – Frederic Manning – David Martin (Ludwig Detsinyi) – Philip Martin – Ray Mathew – Furnley Maurice (Frank Wilmot) – Harley Matthews – Philip Mead – Louisa Meredith – Miidhu – Sam Mitchell – E. G. Moll – Linda Molony – Rod Moran – Ian Mudie – Les Murray – E. G. Murphy ('Dryblower') – T. H. Naisby – Smiler Narautjarri – Narranyeri people – John Shaw Neilson – Oodgeroo Noonuccal – Nunggubuyu people – Mark O'Connor – Bernard O'Dowd – E. J. Overbury – Jan Owen – Geoff Page – Vance Palmer – Pambardu – Charmaine Papertalk-Green – A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson – Grace Perry – J. A. Phelp – John Philip – Hal Porter – Peter Porter – Craig Powell – Pudjipangu – Jennifer Rankin – Vicki Raymond – Alan Riddell – Elizabeth Riddell – Nigel Roberts – Roland Robinson – Judith Rodriguez – Eric Rolls – David Rowbotham – John Rowland – Gig Ryan -Philip Salom – Andrew Sant – John A. Scott – Margaret Scott – W. N. Scott – Thomas Shapcott – Jemal Sharah – Michael Sharkey – Charles Shaw – Dunstan Shaw – Craig Sherborne – R. A. Simpson – Peter Skrzynecki – Kenneth Slessor – Vivian Smith – Edith Speers – Peter Steele – James Brunton Stephens – Douglas Stewart – Harold Stewart – Billy Marshall Stoneking – Randolph Stow – Maurice Strandgard – Jennifer Strauss – Norman Talbot – Andrew Taylor – Charles R. Thatcher – Colin Thiele – Richard Tipping – Tjinapirrgarri – John Tranter – W. J. Turner – David Unaipon – Rod Usher – Brian Vrepont (B. A. Trubridge) – Robert Walker – Chris Wallace-Crabbe – Francis Webb – Richard Whately – B. R. Whiting – Lauren Williams – Amy Witting – Wolaroi people – Wonguri-Mandjigai people – Sam Woolagoodjah – Judith Wright – Fay Zwicky

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  1. ↑ "New Oxford Book of Australian Verse". Austlit. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
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