Hampton, Susan & Llewellyn, Kate (Ed.). The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets

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The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets
Edited by Susan Hampton and Kate Llewellyn.

Penguin, Ringwood, 1986.
First Edition paperback. 293 pp.

Cover illustration by Sabrina Schmid.

Covers late nineteenth to twentieth century Australian women poets and includes: Harford, Cross, Harwood, Zwicky, Hewett, Viidikas, Jennings, Walwitz, Maiden, Ryan, among many others. An excellent survey of Australian women’s poetry, the Penguin publication a significant example of how mainstream the market for women’s writing and feminism had become by the mid-1980s.

Condition: Minor wear to the cover and tanned pages.