New Oxford Book of Australian Verse

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New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
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3rd edition cover
AuthorLes Murray (editor)
Cover artistJoseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPoetry anthology
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
1986
Media typePrint
Pages438
ISBN978-0-19-553994-3
OCLC36556974
821.008/0994 21
LC ClassPR9615.25 .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.

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 – – – – Richard James Allen – Ethel Anderson – – 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 – – Julian Croft – Alison Croggon – – Victor Daley – Jack Davis – – – Bruce Dawe – C. J. Dennis – James Devaney – Rosemary Dobson – Michael Dransfield – John Dunmore Lang – Max Dunn – Geoffrey Dutton – Will Dyson – Ted Egan – Louis Esson – – Diane Fahey – Barron Field – Mary Finnin – Robert D. FitzGerald – – 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 – – – Robert Gray – – – Rodney Hall – Philip Hammial – Susan Hampton – – 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 – – – – 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 – – – Eve Langley – – Louis Lavater – Anthony Lawrence – Henry Lawson – Joyce Lee – Geoffrey Lehmann – – Jack Lindsay – Kate Llewellyn – – Frederick Macartney – James McAuley – Hugh McCrae – Ronald McCuaig – Nan McDonald – Roger McDonald – – – Dorothea Mackellar – – Rhyll McMaster – Francis MacNamara (Frank the Poet) – – Jennifer Maiden – David Malouf – John Manifold – Frederic Manning – David Martin (Ludwig Detsinyi) – Philip Martin – Ray Mathew – Furnley Maurice (Frank Wilmot) – – – Louisa Meredith – – – – – Rod Moran – Ian Mudie – Les Murray – E. G. Murphy ('Dryblower') – – – – John Shaw Neilson – Oodgeroo Noonuccal – Nunggubuyu people – Mark O'Connor – Bernard O'Dowd – – Jan Owen – Geoff Page – Vance Palmer – – – A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson – Grace Perry – – – Hal Porter – Peter Porter – Craig Powell – – Jennifer Rankin – – – Elizabeth Riddell – – Roland Robinson – Judith Rodriguez – Eric Rolls – David Rowbotham – – Gig Ryan -Philip Salom – Andrew Sant – John A. Scott – Margaret Scott – W. N. Scott – Thomas Shapcott – – Michael Sharkey – Charles Shaw – – Craig Sherborne – R. A. Simpson – Peter Skrzynecki – Kenneth Slessor – Vivian Smith – – Peter Steele – James Brunton Stephens – Douglas Stewart – Harold Stewart – Billy Marshall Stoneking – Randolph Stow – – Jennifer Strauss – – Andrew Taylor – Charles R. Thatcher – Colin Thiele – Richard Tipping – – John Tranter – W. J. Turner – David Unaipon – – Brian Vrepont (B. A. Trubridge) – – Chris Wallace-Crabbe – Francis Webb – – – – Amy Witting – Wolaroi people – – – Judith Wright – Fay Zwicky

References[]

  • The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (OUP, 1996) ISBN 0-19-553994-X
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