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The John Leonard Press is\u00a0home to some of Australia\u2019s finest new and established poets: thirty-one\u00a0titles have been published to date, including twenty-nine\u00a0new single-author volumes, one anthology and one critical volume. These have appeared since August 2006 to considerable acclaim.<\/header>\n
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We publish what we believe to be of outstanding quality. The books are beautiful to look at and to open. They radically vary in poetic styles but all beguile into reading at a speaking pace, and to returning.<\/header>\n
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The selection of poems\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0is quite extensive from each JLP book. This makes possible a proper browsing, like that which intending readers might do in a bookshop before they decide to buy.\u00a0We intend this part of the website to be its most enjoyable.<\/header>\n
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John Leonard is commissioning editor. He taught at Monash and James Cook universities, and is the well-known anthologist of\u00a0Seven Centuries of Poetry in English<\/i>\u00a0(OUP). He has also edited five landmark Australian anthologies, including the recent full survey,\u00a0The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry<\/i>, 2009, and\u00a0Young Poets: An Australian Anthology,\u00a0<\/i>2011. (Several John Leonards inhabit the literary globe. Note that ours is not a poet, and has no other website.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Petra White’s, A Hunger,<\/em> Revised Edition<\/a>, was published in March, 2018.<\/p>\n

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\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0Petra White’s, A Hunger,<\/em> Revised Edition<\/a>, has been set by the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority, for choice of poetry text for VCE Literature 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Two John Leonard Press titles were\u00a0nominated by the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority, among a short list, for choice of poetry texts for VCE Literature 2015 & 2016\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Young Poets: An Australian Anthology<\/a><\/i>, ed. John Leonard (Dec. 2011)\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Cumulus \u2013 Collected Poems<\/a><\/i>, Robert Gray.<\/p>\n

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