Selected by one of the world's leading poets, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse has been acclaimed by critics such as Helen Gardner and Peter Porter as the finest anthology of its kind. It surveys the best and most characterful Australian poetry from the Dreamtime to the mid-1990s.For this new edition, many of Murray's earlier selections have been revised, with replacement work from key poets, and 26 new poets have been added, including John A. Scott, Alison Croggon, John Kinsella, and Craig Sherborne.