The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

Ann Vickery is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000), Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics of Australian Women's Poetry (2007) and three poetry collections. She is co-author of The Intimate Archive: Journeys into Private Papers (2009), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (2024), and co-editor of Poetry and the Trace (2013). Philip Mead is the author of Network Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry (2009; repr. 2010, 2011, 2018) and winner of the 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Literary Scholarship. He is co-author of Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916–2016 (2018) and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

• Introduction Ann Vickery and Philip Mead; 1. Language, text and colony: rethinking aboriginal poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Eugenia Flynn; 2. British speculations of Terra Australis and romantic-period poetry Robert W. Rix; 3. Poetry in the penal colony Thomas H. Ford and Kyle Kohinga; 4. Becoming distinct: nineteenth-century Australian poetry Paul Giles; 5. The many-voiced Charles Harpur Paul Eggert; 6. Anonymity and the popular: the Colonial ballad and other folk forms Michael Farrell; 7. Settler labour poetics and the national imaginary at the turn of the twentieth century Jonathan Dunk; 8. Children's poetry from 1840 to 1950 Kristine Moruzi and Beth Rodgers; 9. Australian poetries of war and conflict Ann Vickery; 10. 'Poetry is its own advertisement': little magazines, clubs, and coteries (1890–1945) Peter Kirkpatrick; 11. The new woman and poetry (1885–1935) Jess Cotton; 12. Women poets, mobility, and being 'in-between' Nancy Berke; 13. Fin de Siècle symbolism and after Toby Fitch; 14. Kenneth Slessor's visualism Philip Mead; 15. Surrealism and Australian poetry Gavin Yates; 16. Gum tears which are also real: manifesto and hoax in the Jindyworobak and Ern Malley Nicholas Birns; 17. The mid-century canon: post-sham Australia Georgina Arnott; 18. Judith wright Sarah Kennedy; 19. Oodgeroo Noonuccal Peter Minter; 20. Aboriginal song as Australian poetry: the unimaginable archive Nicholas Jose; 21. Re-imagining place (1940–1990) Bonny Cassidy; 22. Australian poetry and the rise of a Suburban Quotidian, 1950–2000 Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton; 23. The three ontologies of regional poetry Tony Hughes-D'aeth; 24. The poetry of Antarctica Elizabeth Leane; 25. Poetry and the State (1945 to the Present) Ali Alizadeh; 26. Australian expatriate poets Andrew Taylor; 27. Les Murray Michael Hofmann; 28. Religion and poetry in Australia Lyn Mccredden; 29. Francis Webb Bill Ashcroft; 30. Australian poetry and post-war immigration from Europe Konstandina Dounis; 31. The long 1970s and print culture Fiona Scotney; 32. Australian poets of the 1980s John Hawke; 33. Activism and the Eruption of aboriginal writing Philip Morrissey; 34. Reading the archive of Australian feminist poetry since 1970 Kate Lilley; 35. Queer poetry in Australia: 1970s to today Jill Jones and Bonnie Reid; 36. Between identity and form: Asian Australian poetry Prithvi Varatharajan and Lucy Van; 37. Poetry of the South West Asian and North African diasporas Paula Abood; 38. Trancultural relations with Latin America Stuart Cooke; 39. Performance poetries Andy Jackson; 40. Long form poetry from the 1980s to the present Simon Eales; 41. From conceptual to concrete (1960–2020): parahistoriographies A.J. Carruthers; 42. The digital era Hazel Smith; 43. The Earth has been done: recent environmental poetry Tom Bristow; 44. Contemporary anthologies and the question of canonicity Jaya Savige; 45. New dynamics in twenty-first century anthologies Jaya Savige.