Anthology

100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant

by David McCooey •

May 2011, no. 331

Hardie Grant, $39.95 hb, 215 pp

Anthology

100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant

by David McCooey •

May 2011, no. 331

100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss is the companion volume to Jamie Grant’s 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know (2008). The title of the new anthology shies away from its predecessor’s imperative mode, but remains a marketer’s dream. What is poetry about if not love and death? What is poetry’s purpose if not to offer powerful articulations of those things that make us speechless?

David McCooey

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David McCooey is a prize-winning poet, critic, and editor. His latest collection of poems is The Book of Falling, published by Upswell Publishing (2023). His first collection, Blister Pack (2005), won the Mary Gilmore Award and was shortlisted for four major national literary awards. He is a professor of literature and writing at Deakin University in Geelong, where he lives. His website is: www.davidmccooey.com