The Best Australian Poetryseries returns after an impressive debut in 2003 with a new volume that is original, stimulating and wide-ranging in its sympathies. Guest Editor Anthony Lawrence brings to this volume a passionate commitment to Australian poetry and his reputation as one of Australia's premier poets. Bearing the impress of his distinctive editorial mind, Lawrence's selection of the best forty poems published in Australian literary journals in the preceding year is dramatic and flamboyant, revealing an unquenchable passion for life immersed in the marvellous matter of lived reality.