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, <i>Poets of Australia: An Anthology of Australian Verse</i>, 1946 George Mackanness, <i>An Anthology of Australian Verse</i> (2nd ed.), 1952 Judith Wright, <i>A Book of Australian Verse</i>, 1956John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth, <i>The Penguin Book of Australian Verse</i>, 1958 Judith Wright, <i>A Book of Australian Verse</i> (2nd ed.), 1968Harry Heseltine, <i>The Penguin Book of Australian Verse</i>, 1972 Geoffrey Dutton, <i>Australian Verse from 1805: A Continuum</i>, 1975 Rodney Hall, <i>The Collins Book of Australian Poetry</i>, 1981Geoffrey Dutton, <i>The Heritage of Australian Poetry</i>, 1984 Les Murray, <i>The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse</i>, 1986 Les Murray, <i>The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse</i> (2nd ed.), 1991John Leonard, <i>Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology</i>, 1998John Leonard, <i>The Puncher &amp; Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry</i>, 2009 John Kinsella, <i>The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry</i>, 2009 Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, <i>Australian Poetry Since 1788</i>, 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’