The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse
Penguin, $4.95 pb, 214 pp
Poetry
New Horizons Please
by James Koehne •
The appearance of anthologies which have the intention of representing the poetic output of a specific ‘era’ often indicates that era's having achieved a status of authority. Harry Heseltine’s Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse anthologizes poetry of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, and just as surely as in any such anthology, the poetry of these decades becomes relegated to the past tense.
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The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse
edited by Harry Heseltine
Penguin, $4.95 pb, 214 pp
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