The Best Australian Poetry 2008

Honoring the most exciting Australian poetry published in 2008, guest editor David Brooks, the editor of Australia's oldest literary journal, Southerly, introduces his selection of 40 poems from Australia's print and online journals in this anthology that captures poetry as passion, lived experience, and momentary distillation into action. Together with comments from the poets discussing their work, this collection takes stock of the latest and the greatest in today’s Australian poetry.