Australian Love Poems 2013

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Love--ancient and modern, ecstatic and mundane, sacred and profane--finds its Australian voice between the covers of this book. This important collection of new poems displays the richness and variety of contemporary Australian poetry. Here is larrikin love, ironic love and the understated love we inhabit. Australian Love Poems 2013 is a who's who of Australian poets. It containing 200 poems from 173 Australian poets including well known poets Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Cate Kennedy, Robert Gray, Paul Kelly and exciting new poetic talent. This is how we do love, how we fall in and out of it, yearn and turn and hurt in it, and how love leads us beyond ourselves. And this is how we write love: in sonnets, of course, pantoums, villanelles, haiku, ghazals, prose poems, free verse and aubades. The richness of love found in Australian Love Poems 2013 claims Australia as a poetic nation and a nation of love.

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Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Montreal Poetry Prize (2011) and the Cardiff Poetry Prize (2012), is the author of The Blue Plateau, Fire Diary, The Road South (poems on CD), The Little Green Grammar Book, The Little Red Writing Book (published outside Australia as Writing Well: the Essential Guide), The Land's Wild Music , A Place on Earth, with Geoff Whyte, The Little Black Book of Business Writing, The Lyrebird (poems), and most recently Australia's Wild Weather.The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Fire Diary won the WA Premier's Book Prize. Mark Tredinnick is "one of our great poets of place--not just of geographic place, but of the spiritual and moral landscapes as well," according to Judith Beveridge. Mark lives in the highlands southwest of Sydney, Australia. www.marktredinnick.com.au