hi Jill
Thanks from me too for that survey. The UQP Best of
Series will include electronic journals from 2004 - Their
exclusion may have had to do with first guest editor
working from Iran!
best
Hugh
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From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Australian poetry
> I think there are problems with Landbridge and New Music that, for
> different reasons, would be pointless at this stage in the game to
> canvas. Though I could point to a whole heap of poets, many of them
> midcareer and, shall we say, eastern sea-board, who don't get a
> guernsey in either, unaccountably. The list is long, it's not just a
> 'few omissions'. But by their very nature anthologies are biased and
> selective and one always has to look beyond.
>
> There also a Peter Porter anthology as well as Les's and Tranter/Mead
> and a Gray/Lehmann one, and, yes, the classic Llewellyn/Hampton women's
> one and another women's one by Susan Lever. Apart from their problems,
> they are old now and much has happened and continues to happen, to
> state the bleeding obvious.
>
> The various supplements in o/s literary journals featuring Australian
> poets that Hugh mentions are useful, and there have been others, if
> they are still held in libraries, or maybe on line -
> - the Atlanta Review (US), Spring/Summer 2000 (Tranter edited)
> - Poetry (US) (yes, that famous old mag) Oct/Nov 1996 (Kinsella)
> - Poetry Review (UK) Spring 1999 (Kinsella )
> - Prism International (Can) Winter 2000 (Kinsella and Coral Hull)
> -an edition of Verse around 2000, I don't have it to hand, edited by
> Brian Henry.
>
> There's also an upcoming edition of Poetry International (straight outa
> San Diego, Mark) with a selection of Australian and New Zealand poets
> selected by Martin Harrison. It's due soonish, I think. And way back,
> Laurie Duggan did a supplement in the NZ journal Landfall, Spring 1995
> (a bit old now, that). There's enough stuff in them, and others I have
> probably missed, both by much younger and/or newer Australian poets as
> well as less lauded but excellent mid-career and older poets, to make a
> considerable and fascinating Salon des Refuses - although 'refuses'
> status is always fluid, isn't it. And some will always sit outside the
> anthology thing - happily unanthologisable and just getting on with it.
>
> I haven't seen the Best of from UQP that Hugh mentions. It's along the
> lines of that US series annual 'best ofs' - though such annuals were
> done many years ago in Australia. I have a problem with 'best' in the
> title and with some of the selection criteria (they did not consider
> poems in electronic journals) but I've heard some positive comments
> about it so it's worth a chase.
>
> Hope that's helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
>
> On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 01:48 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
> > At 8:37 AM +1000 21/9/03, Hugh Tolhurst wrote:
> >> Unfortunately
> >> his Landbridge wasn't a great success (a bit of a rush
> >> job, I thought in the ARB review I wrote). There's
> >> a John Leonard anthology I don't like much, and the
> >> quirky Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets edited
> >> by Mike Brennan and Peter Minter.
> >
> > Sure, there are problems with Landbridge, but it's a good,
> > informative cross section of what's around. Same with the Leonard
> > anthology (which one? there are a couple) - different quibbles with
> > the broader one, its claim to inclusiveness which amounts to a lack
> > of direction, though it has its virtues, some interesting younger
> > poets. The Tranter-Meade one also has problems: real questions there
> > about women and indigenous writing. There's also an OUP around
> > edited by Murray. And a classic Penguin anthology edited by Susan
> > Hawthorne of Australian women's poetry, which fills in some of the
> > gaps, and was revelatory when I read it first, ten years ago or so.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > A
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