The very best of Henry Lawson - heart-rending tales of the human condition, rousing poems of social protest, images of comic characters, classic portraits such as Middleton's rouseabout, as well as some of Lawson's lesser known works, including the poignant verse addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thornburn.

Kate's seventh book of poetry, and her fifteenth book in all. This set of poems is full of meditations, meanderings and story fragments. There are tadpoles and parsnips; lost languages and remembered relationships; passion, pretence and everything in between.

Australian Poetry 21st century