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Theatre is difficult to track. There are individual playscripts published by Currency Press, but most of the overviews - two big ones by Len Radic, for instance - are pretty ordinary (my review of one of them here -http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2006/09/contemporary-australian-drama.html ) You could try Terminus and Other Plays by Daniel Keene (available from Salt) to check out our Most Successful Export - Keene is the most produced contemporary playwright in France. But not, ahem, in his own land. Very much worth a read, even if I say so. Currency House in Sydney is publishing some valuable stuff, but you'd be hard put to find one good authoritative book that covers what really happens. John Leonard's Contemporary Australian Poetry is another good overview, in that is it is (some would say overly) inclusive. The Penguin Book of Women Poets (ed Susan Hampton and Kate Llewellyn, Penguin) is an eye-opener and, I'm pretty sure, also out of print. You could probably track it down on Abebooks. Cheers A On 1/1/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Cheers for the suggestions. I was hoping for one book to fit in my > snap-sack, knew that it was nearly impossible but hey I can dream. > Buying up big means I have to carry big as well : ( I have the Tranter > collection, and I'll look for the Penguin book of Australian women > poets, although it sounds like a rare bird. > > Roger > > On 12/21/06, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Roger, I am uncertain that one such book exists. So much is happening > > right now. > > > > The Penguin book of Aust women poets Doug mentioned, if you can get hold > > of a copy, certainly, but it has become outdated and needs to be > > re-issued in at least four volumes. Some of Aust's most interesting > > poets are women poets, amongst that list are Alison Croggin, Jill Jones > > ( both active on this list) Pam Brown, Susan Hampton and the list goes > > on and on. Dorothy Porter's verse novels are worth the price if you are > > willing to be challenged in thinking poetics, and after that, does one > > book really exist? Sorry, too much happening so cannot be of much help. > > > > Hope this makes sense, my computer monitor has decided the X coordinate > > electromagnetic field has failed and until a new monitor arrives, after > > the Xmans holidays, I cannot proof read what I have typed. > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 12:52 +0000, Roger Day wrote: > > > If I were to buy one book *about Australian literature, which one would it be? > > > > > > Roger > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.badstep.net/ > "Hello Cleveland! Hello Cleveland!" > -- Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com