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The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2009 Poetry

The Golden Bird: New And Selected Poems
Robert Adamson

$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry

The Golden Bird brings together the best of Adamson’s work from the last four decades, and many superb new poems. An accessible introduction to... More »

Better Than God
Peter Porter

$29.99 (Paperback book / Picador )

Peter Porter is one of the pre-eminent Australian poets of his generation and a major figure in the landscape of British poetry. The publication of Better Than God will coincide with his 80th birthday. He has received th... More »


Divine Comedy: Journeys Through A Regional Geography
John Kinsella

$26.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, The Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books: Purgatorio: up close, Paradiso: rupture, and Inferno: leisure centre.

The poe... More »

Fire Season
Kate Middleton

$22.00 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )

The poems in Fire Season are illuminated by the intensity of everyday experience, dwelling in situations of want or absence, or radiant in the aura of those legendary beings, the heroines and monsters of film and story a... More »


True Thoughts
Pam Brown

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Salt Publishing )

True Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown’s last major collection Dear Deliria published in late 2002 and awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004.

This new work collects twenty-three poems written bet... More »

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