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Eight Meanjin Poets Selected for Black Inc.’s Best ofs!

JA October 01

Many congratulations are in order for the Meanjin poets who have been selected for the Best Australian Poems 2009, edited by Robert Adamson. The anthology, which will be published in November, showcases the most outstanding work written by both emerging and established authors over the past year.

We’d also like to take this opportunity to salute and thank Meanjin poetry editor, Judith Beveridge, for her keen eye and ongoing, generous support of new talent.

The Meanjin poets in this year’s best ofs are:

  • David Brooks, ‘A Place on Earth’

  • Adrienne Eberhard, ‘The Maze’

  • Jane Gibian, ‘Sound Piece’

  • Clive James, ‘Meteor IV at Cowes, 1913’

  • Michelle Leber, ‘Heat Wave, Melbourne’

  • Rose Lucas, ‘Even In The Dark’

  • π.O., ‘‘Mo’ McCackie 1892-1953’

  • Mark Tredinnick, ‘Improvisations on a Daylight Moon’

  • Meredith Wattison, ‘Holbein Through Silk’

Previous contributors to Black Inc.’s anthology include Alex Skovron, Les Murray, Clive James, Dorothy Porter, John Tranter, Lisa Gorton, Peter Porter, Thomas Shapcott, Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Judith Beveridge.


 

 

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