The Best Australian Poetry 2007

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The Best Australian Poetry 2007
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Editor John Tranter
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best Australian Poetry
Genre Anthology
Published2007 (University of Queensland Press)
Media typePrint paperback
Pages156 pp
ISBN 978-0-7022-3607-5

The Best Australian Poetry 2007 is an anthology of poetry published by UQP in 2007. The series editors are Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell; the guest editor for the 2007 anthology was John Tranter.

The selected poems were drawn from the following Australian literary magazines: The Australian Book Review, Blast magazine, Blue Dog, Famous Reporter, Going Down Swinging, Heat, Hecate, Meanjin, Southerly, Space: New Writing , and the Weekend Australian .

The 40 contributors are:

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