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Best of Australian Poems 2023 is a representation of what is happening in Australian poetry at this specific moment in time-what poets were feeling, thinking and imagining across many different forms, mediums and lexicons ... Many of our most accomplished poets are published alongside new and emerging voices, reflecting Australian poetry's continuing evolution. - Gig Ryan & Panda WongBest of Australian Poems 2023 is a poetic snapshot of the year that was. Guest Edited by highly respected poets Gig Ryan and Panda Wong, this collection captures the richness and diversity of Australian writing in the contemporary moment.The third in an annual series from national poetry organisation Australian Poetry, this volume includes narrative poems, prose poems, formal poems. It features archival poetry, digital poetry, spoken word and concrete poetry. There is poetry of resistance, of the domestic, of the body, of the divine. There are prize-winning poems and previously unpublished poems, lyric and anti-lyric poems, love poems and elegies.This is a collection of poems to understand the present, to read and re-read, to send to friends and family.

Manners was Gig Ryan's second collection, in 1984, and confirmed the impression she had made with her first book. It has been unavailable for some time. As Martin Johnston said of the first edition: "something new in Australian poetry: a deeply coherent 'discontinuous narrative' in verse of hallucinatory vividness and continual wry wit..."

Gig Ryan is one of Australia's leading poets. Her edgy, excoriating poetry takes the pulse of urban Australia, but her territory is as much the human rat-race and the hell of contemporary life as the particular lives she seizes upon with icy, ironic precision. This is her first book of poetry to be published in the UK.