Well, maybe, Andrew.

it's their anthologizing we seem to be put off by, & their earlier Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century was by far the most boring of the various anthologies I discovered while over there back in the 90s.

But there was the fun of finding they included McAuley & Stewart but not 'Ern Malley,' while John Tranter & Philip Mead, quite correctly & perversely, did. Given that that is surely their best work, I'm with Tranter & Mead...

Doug
On 2012-01-13, at 7:58 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:

> Yet I like Gray's early poems a lot - an Eastern-influenced imagist with a
> good set of ears. Ah, the creator and the work - a whole different
> conversation.
> 
> I did a reading in another city recently, and a person in the crowd was
> 'disappointed' I was a quiet sober man now! He had me set as the Beat poet
> with a joint in one hand and a vodka in the other of decades ago. Ha ha -
> to get to 67 one has to calm down.
> 
> Andrew
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> On 14 January 2012 07:17, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> yes, Doug, plenty of their own work in this anth. as well as the odd if at
>> times slightly offensive introductions to each poet
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>> On 14/01/2012, at 2:47 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> Ha: I remember their earlier anthology, which, to my taste, left out a
>>> lot of the most interesting of their contemporaries; & I can bet they now
>>> leave out some of the most interesting younger ones.... Shall we say,
>>> ultra-trad? But as I recall, they do like their own work....
>>> 
>>> Doug
>>> On 2012-01-12, at 2:18 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>>> 
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>>>> On 13/01/2012, at 2:54 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Ah: some info there, Jill.  I take you meant 1000 pages?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yikes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Doug
>>>>> 
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