The Best Australian Poems 2015

The Best Australian Poems #13

by Geoff Page (Editor), Robert Adamson (Contributor), Jordie Albiston (Contributor)

‘The human desire for patterned language is as strong as the need for narrative.’—Geoff Page

In The Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who’s who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page’s selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry scene.

Genres: Poetry

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 2, 2015

About the author

Geoff Page has published twenty-four collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works. His awards include the Grace Leven Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the 2001 Patrick White Award and the 2017 ACU Prize for Poetry. His most recent books are Elegy for Emily: A Verse Biography of Emily Remler (Puncher & Wattmann, 2019) and In medias res (Pitt Street Poetry, 2019).

Reviews

[Clancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are a few great pieces here, but the majority are middling or worse.

[Philip Thiel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A strong collection, arranged loosely (and unofficially) by theme which makes it readable from go to woe. Geoff Page likes poems that tell a story, targeting readers used to prose.

[Highlyeccentric · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's probably not that this collection was less memorable than its predecessors, but merely that I wasn't in a poetry-remembering mood for the second half of the year.

[Kristin Alford · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Words stick in the teeth like peppercorns" and other gems that jump off the page. I've earmarked lots of pages and re-read my favourites.