Paperback Poets

A series initiated by UQP in 1970, presented a wide range of contemporary Australian poetry. The first series of eighteen books, mostly edited by Roger McDonald, was published 1970-73, and comprised David Malouf's Bicycle and Other Poems (1970), Michael Dransfield's Streets of the Long Voyage (1970), Rodney Hall's Heaven, in a Way (1970), Andrew Taylor's The Cool Change (1970), Geoff Page and Philip Roberts's Two Poets: The Question and Single Eye (1971), J.S. Harry's The Deer under the Skin (1971), R.A. Simpson's Diver (1972), Dransfield's The Inspector of Tides (1972), Rhyll McMaster's The Brineshrimp (1972), Richard Tipping's Soft Riots (1972), Thomas Shapcott's Begin with Walking (1972), Leon Slade's Slade's Anatomy of the Horse (1972), David Lake's Hornpipes & Funerals (1973), Judith Rodriguez's Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red and Other Poems (1973), Andrew Taylor's Ice Fishing (1973), Rodney Hall's A Soapbox Omnibus (1973), Manfred Jurgensen's Signs and Voices (1973), and Vicki Viidikas's Condition Red (1973). The First Paperback Poets Anthology, edited by McDonald, was published in 1974.

The second series of nineteen books was published 1974-81 and comprised Jennifer Maiden's Tactics (1974), Paul Kavanagh's Wild Honey (1974), Robert Gray's Creekwater Journal (1974), McDonald's Airship (1975), Page's Smalltown Memorials (1975), Graeme Kinross Smith and Jamie Grant's Turn Left at Any Time with Care (1975), Robin Thurston's Believed Dangerous (1975), Peter Skrzynecki's Immigrant Chronicle (1975), Tipping's Domestic Hardcore (1975), Roberts's Will's Dream (1975), Peter Kocan's The Other Side of the Fence (1975), Simpson's Poems from Murrumbeena (1976), Andrew McDonald's Absence in Strange Countries (1976), Alan Wearne's New Devil, New Parish (1976), Martin Johnston's The Sea-Cucumber (1978), Alan Gould's Icelandic Solitaries (1978), Kevin Hart's The Departure (1978), Gary Catalano's Remembering the Rural Life (1978), and Susan Whiting's Between Breaths (1981). Consolidation: The Second Paperback Poets Anthology comprising selected poems from the second series, edited by Thomas Shapcott, was published in 1981.

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