Australian National Poetry Anthologies: Poems and Poets
This dataset is derived from the tables of contents of fifteen Australian ‘national’ poetry anthologies published between 1946 and 2011. Dataset contains all poems and poets included in the following anthologies:
George Mackanness, Poets of Australia: An Anthology of Australian Verse, 1946
George Mackanness, An Anthology of Australian Verse (2nd ed.), 1952
Judith Wright, A Book of Australian Verse, 1956
John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth, The Penguin Book of Australian Verse, 1958
Judith Wright, A Book of Australian Verse (2nd ed.), 1968
Harry Heseltine, The Penguin Book of Australian Verse, 1972
Geoffrey Dutton, Australian Verse from 1805: A Continuum, 1975
Rodney Hall, The Collins Book of Australian Poetry, 1981
Geoffrey Dutton, The Heritage of Australian Poetry, 1984
Les Murray, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, 1986
Les Murray, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (2nd ed.), 1991
John Leonard, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, 1998
John Leonard, The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry, 2009
John Kinsella, The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, 2009
Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, Australian Poetry Since 1788, 2011
Excel is used to store and organise all data derived from anthology tables of contents. Separate Excel tabs have been created for each anthology. The contents of these tabs have been combined to create three consolidated spreadsheets: ‘Consolidated - By anthology’, ‘Consolidated - by poem’ and ‘Consolidated - By poet’
