Top Lines
from Australian Contemporary Poets
edited by Dot Jensen and Maureen Granger
Top Lines is a collection of poems from 46 of Australia's best known and most promising poets selected to appeal to lower and middle secondary students. Finding poems which will interest and are relevant to students in Years 8 - 10 has always been a problem for English teachers. Developing effective and interesting poetry lessons is likewise not easy. Problems solved.
Who are the poets?
Robert Adamson, joanne burns, Grant Caldwell, Heather Cam, Hal Colebatch, Bruce Dawe, Geoffrey Dutton, Robert Gray, Myron Lysenko, Shane McCauley, Les Murray, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Marjorie Pizer, Elizabeth Riddell, Judith Rodriguez, Margaret Scott, Coral Hull, Christopher Kelen, Andy Kissane, Peter Kocan, Thomas Shapcott, Peter Skrzynecki, Colin Thiele, John Tranter
and many others, have chosen the poems they have written which they think will most appeal to students in years 8 - 10. The resulting collection covers a wide range of poetic forms, techniques and subjects.
'...a worthy acquisition as a class set...a useful source of otherwise unattainable material on every English teacher's bookshelf. "Top Lines Activities and Resources", to accompany the anthology is the most useful poetry-teaching resource I have seen in many years.' - The Australian English Teacher
Top Lines is accompanied by Top Lines Activities and Resources Book which provides teachers with information and ideas, including reproducible activity pages about: the poems, the poets, poetic inspiration, forms and structures, poetic language, techniques, analysis, and how to write a poem.
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Top Lines Contents
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Robert ADAMSON Gutting the Salmon My Granny David BEACH Stuntman Railway Station Escalators joanne burns horizontal hold together Mark BUTLER Beethoven once (for The Doctor) Letter to a dying man Grant CALDWELL Hamburgerology Ozone But Heather CAM That homemade garment How I come to own a black leather jacket with studs, zippers, snaps, and pockets galore Hal COLEBATCH Casting off Grass stems at the Zoo Bruce DAWE Interviewing a Poet Doctor to Patient Geoffrey DUTTON The Stranded Whales Burning Off Carolyn GERRISH Wearing Reeboks Fatal Attraction Maureen GRANGER Family Funeral Jason to the Rescue Jamie GRANT Daylight Moon Grandfather Clock Robert GRAY Descent Currawongs Susan HAMPTON Wax The Kitchen Of Aunty Mi And Aunty Pearl Libby HATHORN Stories Grandmothers Tell Silicone Chick Coral HULL King Browns, Taipans & Crocodiles stick insect Dot JENSEN Hoyts Believer Help! Jill JONES Like Dante in the library The man on the bus Antigone KEFALA Prodigal Son The Lunch Christopher KELEN When Is the Use of a Beach Necessary? Snow Andy KISSANE Fancy Footwork Facing the Moon
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Peter KOCAN The Fathers Written and Directed By ... Martin LANGFORD Aussie The Disco Tony LINTERMANS We Think We're Something Myron LYSENKO She Ran Off with a One-legged Man Billy MARSHALL-STONEKING Spirit Child Assimilation/Western Desert/ 1962-1974 Shane McCAULEY Baby Stick Insect Peter McFARlANE Lullaby Hey Look Mum I'm on Telly Les MURRAY The Rollover The Wedding at Berrico Vera NEWSOM Fable Oodgeroo NOONUCCAL A Song of Hope Last of His Tribe Geoff PAGE Christ at Gallipoli Fledgling Marjorie PIZER Monologue for Henry Lawson Ron PRETTY Bald Hill with Gliders Turning Off Brian PURCELL Morning in Tuscany Photographer Elizabeth RIDDELL Here Lies The Letter Judith RODRIGUEZ Poolfish The Big Girl The House By Water Ian SAW Introduced Species You were making good time Margaret SCOTT The Black Swans Shark Kerry SCUFFINS Suburban Girls R.I.P. Rehabilitation in Prison Thomas SHAPCOTT Portrait of Captain Logan Jemal SHARAH Kristallnacht Peter SKRZYNECKI Silky Oak Children on Swings Colin THIELE Radio Telescope The Wire John TRANTER Smoke Lauren WILLIAMS My Right Leg My Grandmother Met My Grandfather |