Hello British poets -
If you're interested in Australian poets there are dozens, no, there are
hundreds more than the ones already mentioned...
You can find most of them on a website called "Ozlit" -
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/
this site can be accessed from John Tranter's "Jacket" or from my own site
which also leads you to "Otis Rush" - "Little Esther"- "overland" magazine
etc etc- my site is at
http://postbox.library.usyd.edu.au/~pbrown/
I disagree with Anthony Lawrence when he says there are no "clubs" or
factions in Oz poetry. There are definitely groups of friends & like-minds
which have formed organically around aesthetic, political & stylistic
preferences. Although -I wouldn't want to try to map them ....
My list of some of theOz poets unmentioned so far begins....Adam Aitken,
Dipti Saravanamuttu, Joanne Burns, Philip Salom ,Susan Hampton, Steven K.
Kelen, Emma Lew , Hugh Tolhurst, Kerry Leves, Denis Gallagher, Kieran
Carroll, Lee Cataldi - well these are just some whose work I have read &
liked recently in either magazines or new books - Try "Race Against Time" by
Lee Cataldi (Penguin, Aust.) for a section called "scenes from the north"- a
percipient perspective on living & working in an Aboriginal community ....
Pam Brown
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