Monday, November 09, 2009

According to The Australian Literary Review

which is as pompous & oldfashioned as its name suggests, &, like so much of the literary establishment in these parts, licks its own ass & likes the taste of what it finds there—shit that is stylistically at least threescore & ten years old—these were the ten best-selling books of poetry throughout the country in the last week.
1. Shakespeare's Sonnets
2. The Bee Hut, Dorothy Porter
3. Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen
4. Dorothea Mackellar's My Country
5. Selected Poems of T.S.Eliot
6. Penguin's Poems by Heart
7. The Odyssey
8. W.B.Yeats
9. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran (hardback)
10. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran (paperback)

2 comments:

derek said...

it's just a complete list of titles in the 'poetry' section at my local angus & robertson

mark young said...

Christ, Derek, you're well-serviced in Wagga! I think I could probably find the Odyssey in the classics section of our local A&R, possibly The Prophet in the new age section, & I actually did see a single copy of the Leonard Cohen—around the time of his tour—as one of the three books that comprise the poetry section. (I think the other two were about flowers, or cats, or some such.)