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Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specialising in poetry.-History:It was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Joined in 1982 by chairman Simon Thirsk, Astley was later awarded an honorary D.Litt by Newcastle University in 1995...

 as The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry) is a major anthology of twentieth century Australia

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n poetry. Edited by poets Philip Mead and John Tranter

John Tranter

John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...

 it was published by Penguin Australia in 1991

1991 in poetry

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. Aside from the usual criticisms any such anthology will produce, it raised some eyebrows at the time for its inclusion of all the Ern Malley

Ern Malley

Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax. The poet, and his entire body of work, were created in one day in 1944 by writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart as a hoax on Max Harris, Angry Penguins, the modernist magazine he...

 hoax poems. It might be claimed there is no accepted canon of contemporary Australian poetry and this book is the (uncontroversial and arguably comprehensive) selection of its editors.

Poets in The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry

Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson (poet)

Robert Adamson is an Australian poet and publisher.-Biography:Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in Gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970...

 - Bruce Beaver

Bruce Beaver

Bruce Victor Beaver was an Australian poet and novelist.-Biography:Beaver was born in Manly, New South Wales. He was educated at the Manly Public School and at the Sydney Boys' High School...

 - Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic.-Biography:Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration...

 - John Blight

John Blight

John Blight was an Australian poet. The name Blight is of Cornish origin.-Biography:Born in Unley, South Australia on 30 July 1913, Blight was educated at Brisbane State High School. During the Great Depression in Australia he tramped the Queensland coast looking for work...

 - Ken Bolton

Ken Bolton

Ken Bolton is an Australian poet and art critic.Bolton was born in Sydney and studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored. In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani. His first book of poems, Four...

 - Pamela Brown

Pam Brown

Pam Brown is an Australian poet.- Career :Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney...

 - Vincent Buckley

Vincent Buckley

Vincent Thomas Buckley was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic.-Life:He was born in 1925 in Romsey, Victoria and was educated at both the University of Melbourne and the :University of Cambridge, and died in Melbourne in 1988..Buckley edited the magazine, Prospect, from 1958...

 - Charles Buckmaster - Joanne Burns

Joanne Burns

Joanne Burns is a contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.-Biography:...

 - Caroline Caddy

Caroline Caddy

-Biography:Born in Western Australia of an Australian mother and an American father, Caroline Mavis Caddy spent part of her childhood in the United States of America and Japan. She returned to Western Australia where she finished high school, and later worked as a dental nurse with the Road Dental...

 - David Campbell

David Campbell (poet)

David Watt Ian Campbell was an Australian poet who wrote over 15 volumes of prose and poetry.-Life:Campbell was born on 16 July 1915 at Ellerslie Station, near Adelong, New South Wales...

 - Lee Cataldi

Lee Cataldi

Lee Cataldi is a contemporary Australian poet and linguist.-Biography:Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney during World War II when, owing to her Italian heritage, she was technically an 'enemy alien'. As a child she lived in Hobart, moving back to Sydney for university...

 - Aileen Corpus - Anna Couani

Anna Couani

Anna Couani is a contemporary Australian poet and teacher.Anna Couani was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney, then took an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Technology Sydney...

 - Jack Davis

Jack Davis (playwright)

Jack Davis , was a notable Australian 20th Century playwright and poet, also an Indigenous rights campaigner. He was born in Western Australia, in the small town of Yarloop, and lived in Fremantle towards the end of his life. He was of the Aboriginal Noongar people, and much of his work dealt with...

 - Bruce Dawe

Bruce Dawe

Donald Bruce Dawe AO is an Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets of all time.-Early life:...

 - Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary de Brissac Dobson AO is an award winning Australian poet, who is also significant as an illustrator, editor and anthologist...

 - Michael Dransfield

Michael Dransfield

Michael Dransfield was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1000 poems. He has been described as "one of the most widely read poets of his generation." -Early life:...

 - Laurie Duggan

Laurie Duggan

Laurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...

 - Lionel Fogarty

Lionel Fogarty

Lionel Fogarty is an Indigenous Australian poet and political activist.He was born in 1958 at Barambah in Queensland where he grew up. He has been involved in Aboriginal activism from his teenage years, mainly in Southern Queensland on issues such as Land Rights, Aboriginal health and deaths in...

 - John Forbes

John Forbes (poet)

-Life:John Forbes was born in Melbourne, Australia, but during his childhood his family lived in northern Queensland, Malaya and New Guinea. He went to Sydney University and his circle of friends included the poets Robert Adamson, Martin Johnston, and John Tranter...

 - Alan Gould

Alan Gould

Alan Gould is a contemporary Australian novelist and poet.Born in London Alan Gould's family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of...

 - Robert Gray

Robert Gray (poet)

Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.-Biography:Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising...

 - Philip Hammial

Philip Hammial

Philip Roby Hammial is an Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and sculpting...

 - Susan Hampton

Susan Hampton

-Biography:Susan Hampton was born in Inverell. New South Wales in 1949, and lived in Annandale in Sydney for many years. She has written eight books including poetry, fiction and and non-fiction, and her work is collected in many anthologies. Several of her books have won national awards. Her work...

 - Robert Harris

Robert Harris (poet)

Robert Harris was an Australian poet-Life:Robert Harris was born in Melbourne. He was educated in Dovetown High School. He enlisted in the Australian Navy in 1968 during the Vietnam War. During the 1970s he spent time in a commune. He was married but separated from his wife in the 1980s with no...

 - J. S. Harry

J. S. Harry

J. S. Harry is a contemporary Australian poet who has been described as “one of Australian poetry’s keenest satirists, political and social commentators, and perhaps its most ethical agent and antagonist.”...

 - Kevin Hart - William Hart-Smith

William Hart-Smith

William Hart-Smith was a New Zealand/Australian poet who was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His family moved to New Zealand in 1924. He had about "seven years of formal schooling" in England, Scotland and New Zealand before getting work at 15. His first job was as a radio mechanic...

 - Gwen Harwood

Gwen Harwood

Gwen Harwood AO , née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, was an Australian poet and librettist. Gwen Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won numerous poetry awards and prizes...

 - Kris Hemensley

Kris Hemensley

Kris Alan Hemensley is a poet, who was born on The Isle of Wight, and spent his early childhood in Alexandria, the son of an Egyptian mother and an English father who was stationed in Egypt with the Royal Air Force. He visited Australia at the age of 18, and emigrated there in 1966...

 - Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership.-Early life:Hewett was born in Perth and was brought up on a sheep and wheat farm...

 - Philip Hodgins

Philip Hodgins

Philip Ian Hodgins was a prize-winning Australian poet whose work appeared in such major publications as The New Yorker. Peter Rose called him 'probably the most loved [Australian] poet of his generation', noting that 'his admirers ranged from... Alan Hollinghurst to Ron Barassi and Peter Porter...

 - A. D. Hope

A. D. Hope

Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic.-Life:...

 - John Jenkins

John Jenkins (poet)

John Jenkins is an Australian poet, non-fiction author and editor. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of more than 20 books, mostly poetry and non-fiction. He has also collaborated widely with other artists and poets, including on various gallery installations and theatrical events...

 - Kate Jennings

Kate Jennings

Kate Jennings is an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.-Life:Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours...

 - Martin Johnston

Martin Johnston

Martin Johnston was an Australian poet and novelist.Martin Johnston was born in Sydney in November 1947, son of the writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift. His early childhood was spent in London and Sydney. In 1954 the family moved to Greece...

 - Rae Desmond Jones

Rae Desmond Jones

Rae Desmond Jones is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and politician.Jones was born in the mining town of Broken Hill in the far West of New South Wales. Although many of his poems and stories are concerned with urban experience, he has always felt that desert landscapes are...

 - Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala is a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council....

 - S. K. Kelen - John Kinsella - Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence

-Biography:Born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Anthony Lawrence left school at 16, and has worked variously as a jackeroo, fisherman, teacher and writer. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the...

 - Geoffrey Lehmann

Geoffrey lehmann

Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively...

 - Kate Lilley

Kate Lilley

-Early life:Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley....

 - James McAuley

James McAuley

James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism.-Life and career:...

 - Roger McDonald

Roger McDonald

Roger McDonald is the author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works....

 - Kenneth Mackenzie - Rhyll McMaster

Rhyll McMaster

Rhyll McMaster is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000....

 - Jennifer Maiden

Jennifer Maiden

Jennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...

 - Ern Malley

Ern Malley

Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax. The poet, and his entire body of work, were created in one day in 1944 by writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart as a hoax on Max Harris, Angry Penguins, the modernist magazine he...

 - David Malouf

David Malouf

David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...

 - Billy Marshall Stoneking

Billy Marshall Stoneking

Billy Marshall Stoneking is an Australian-American poet, playwright, filmmaker, and teacher. His son C.W. Stoneking is a musician.-Childhood and education:...

 - Philip Mead - Peter Minter - Mudrooroo

Mudrooroo

Colin Thomas Johnson, better known by his nom de plume, Mudrooroo is a novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. He has been described as one of the most enigmatic literary figures of Australia and since 2001 he has been living in Kapan, Nepal...

 - Les Murray

Les Murray (poet)

Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...

 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights...

 - Geoff Page

Geoff Page

Geoffrey Donald Page is an Australian poet, translator, teacher and jazz enthusiast.He has published over seventeen collections of poetry, as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are his driving interests, and he has also written a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann...

 - Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...

 - Peter Porter

Peter Porter (poet)

Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...

 - Jennifer Rankin

Jennifer Rankin

Jennifer Rankin was a 20th century Australian poet and playwright. Rankin was born in and grew up in Sydney and went to Ravenswood Methodist School. She then studied English and Psychology at University of Sydney and completed a Diploma of Education at UNE in 1968...

 - Nigel Roberts - Judith Rodriguez

Judith Rodriguez

Judith Catherine Rodriguez AM is a contemporary Australian poet.- Life :Rodriguez was born Judith Catherine Green in Perth and grew up in Brisbane. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, and graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts...

 - Peter Rose

Peter Rose (poet)

Peter Rose is an Australian poet, critic, novelist and editor. He belongs to a notable Collingwood Football Club family. His father, Bob Rose, was a famous player and coach. His brother, Robert Rose , played for Collingwood and opened the batting for Victoria before an accident left him a...

 - Gig Ryan

Gig Ryan

Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anna Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan...

 - Philip Salom

Philip Salom

Philip Salom is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.-Biography:Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction in the South West region of Western Australia. Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during his high school years...

 - John A. Scott

John A. Scott

John Alan Scott is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic....

 - Tom Shapcott - Alex Skovron - Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Michael Skrzynecki OAM, is an Australian poet of Polish/Ukrainian origin.-Biography:Skrzynecki came to Australia with his parents in 1949, as a refugee from "the sorrow / Of northern wars"...

 - Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Adolf Slessor OBE was an Australian poet and journalist. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.-Life:Slessor was born Kenneth Adolphe...

 - Randolph Stow

Randolph Stow

Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...

 - Jennifer Strauss

Jennifer Strauss

Jennifer Strauss AM is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and Melbourne University. Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing...

 - Bobbi Sykes

Bobbi Sykes

Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes was an Australian poet and author...

 - Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor (poet)

Andrew McDonald Taylor is an Australian poet and academic. Although he lacks the public profile of several of his contemporaries, he has since come to be regarded as a major figure in Australian poetry, with a body of work notable for its intelligence and its formal, emotional and geographical...

 - Tim Thorne

Tim Thorne

Tim Thorne is a contemporary Australian poet.Thorne lives in Launceston, Tasmania. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being Best Bitter in 2006 and I Con in 2008....

 - Richard Kelly Tipping - John Tranter

John Tranter

John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...

 - Dimitris Tsaloumas

Dimitris Tsaloumas

-Biography:Dimitris Tsaloumas was born in Greece on the island of Leros, one of the Dodecanese islands, which were then under Italian rule . Consequently his formal education was in Italian. His later schooling was on Rhodes where he also studied the violin...

 - Vicki Viidikas

Vicki Viidikas

Vicki Viidikas was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Dropping out of school, she encountered the Balmain New South Wales poetry scene in the late 1960s. There she encountered, among others, Ken Bolton, John Forbes, Martin...

 - Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris Wallace-Crabbe AO is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.-Biography:...

 - Ania Walwicz

Ania Walwicz

Ania Walwicz is a contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, and visual artist.Ania Walwicz spent her childhood in Poland, coming to Australia in 1963 where she attended the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Her writing tends toward an impressionistic, stream of consciousness...

 - Alan Wearne

Alan Wearne

Alan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...

 - Francis Webb

Francis Webb (poet)

Francis Charles Webb-Wagg was an Australian poet who published under the name Francis Webb. "Diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia in the 1950s, he spent most of his adult life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, writing poetry against terrible odds." He is widely regarded as one of...

 - Archie Weller

Archie Weller

Archie Weller is an Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.Weller was born in Cranbrook, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the South west of that state....

 - Judith Wright

Judith Wright

Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.-Biography:...

 - Fay Zwicky

Fay Zwicky

Fay Zwicky is a contemporary Australian poet, short-story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer.-Life:...

See also

• 1991 in poetry
  1991 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Forward Poetry Prize created...
  
  
• Literature of Australia