Poetry

Thirty Australian Poets edited by Felicity Plunkett

Item: Thirty Australian Poets
Author: Fiona Wright

by Fiona Wright •

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

University of Queensland Press, $27.95 pb, 304 pp, 9780702239144

Poetry

Thirty Australian Poets edited by Felicity Plunkett

by Fiona Wright •

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337

Although it has been almost half a century since 1968, a year readily mythologised in Australian poetry, the so-called Generation of ’68 are still the most talked-about contemporary poets. There have been few attempts to define the next generations of poets. Forty-three years is a long definition of what might be deemed ‘contemporary’.

Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her most recent book of essays, The World Was Whole, was published in October 2018. Fiona worked as an editor at Giramondo Publishing for five years. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Sydney University, and is the host of Six Degrees From the City, a podcast about writers and Western Sydney.