From the Book - 1st American ed
Foreword / Thomas Keneally
General introduction / Nicholas Jose
Aboriginal literature / Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
Literature to 1900 / Elizabeth Webby
Literature 1900-1950 / Nicole Moore
Fiction and drama from 1950 / Kerryn Goldsworthy
Poetry and non-fiction from 1950 / David McCooey
from: Journal of a first fleet surgeon / George Worgan (1757-1838)
from: Complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson / Watkin Tench (1758-1833)
Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney's steward / Bennelong (c1764-1813)
Letter to Brigid Kingdon / Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850)
from: Voyage to Terra Australis / Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
Kangaroo / Barron Field (1786-1846)
Native's lament / Anonymous
from: Hermit in Van Diemen's land / Henry Savery (1791-1842)
Swan river eclogue / Anonymous
Jim Jones at Botany Bay / Anonymous
from: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia / Charles Sturt (1795-1969)
Aboriginal mother (from Myall's Creek) / Eliza Dunlop (1796-1880)
Convict's tour to hell / Frank the poet (c 1810-c 1861)
Letter to her father / Eliza Brown (1810-1896)
from: Notes and sketches of New South Wales / Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895)
Mid-summer noon in the Austrailian Forest
Consummation / Charles Harpur (1813-1868)
Letter to colonial secretary, Van Diemen's land / Mary Ann Arthur (c 1819-1871)
Letter to colonial secretary, Van Diemen's land / Walter George Arthur (c 1820-1861)
from: Lady's visit to the gold diggings of Australia in 1852-1853 / Ellen Clacy (c 1820-?)
Song of Australia / Caroline Carleton (c 1820-1874)
Aboriginal or Flinders Island chronicle
Flinders Island weekly chronicle
Weekly Chronicle / Thomas Brune (c 1823-1841)
Letter to the editor by the Conranderrk Aborigines / William Barak (c 1824-1903)
from: Clara Morison / Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910)
from: Robbery under arms / Rolf Boldrewood (1826-1915)
Speech on Mr Wentworth's Constitutional Bill / DH Deniehy (1828-1865)
Eumerella shore / Anonymous
Wild colonial boy / Anonymous
Sick stockrider / Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
Spider and the fly / Waif Wander (c 1833-c 1910)
Cabbage-tree hollow, and the valley of the grose / Louisa Atkinson (1834-1872)
Stringy bark and green hide / George Chanson (1835-1898)
from: Australia twice traversed / Ernest Giles (1835-1897)
Late Mr A L Gordon: in memoriam / Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
from: Dominion of Australia / WHL Ranken (1839-1902)
Shepherd / AJ Boyd (1842-1928)
from: Such is life / Joseph Furphy (1843-1912)
Wind of destiny / Ada Cambridge (1844-1926)
Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea spray and smoke drift / Marcus Clarke (1846-1881)
Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott (1846-1918)
That nonsensical idea / Louisa Lawson (1848-1920)
Monsieur Caloche / Tasma (1848-1897)
Letter to the editor / Bessie Cameron (c 1851-1895)
from: Confessions of a beachcomber / EJ Banfield (1852-1923)
from: My life and work / Taam Sze Pui (c 1853-1926)
Letter to her mother / Audrey Tennyson (1854-1916)
Jerilderie letter / Ned Kelly (1855-1880)
How Muster-Master Stoneman earned his breakfast / Price Warung (1855-1911)
Chosen vessel / Barbara Baynton (1857-1929)
Correggio Jones / Victor Daley (c 1858-1905)
Letter to Edith Brangy / Kitty Brangy (c 1859-1918)
Letter to solicitor, for Captain Page, secretary of the Victorian board for the protection of Aborigines / Annie Rich (c 1859-1937)
Petition to the king / William Cooper (c 1861-1941)
Mulga Bill's bicycle / Banjo Paterson (1864-1941)
Poet's mother / AG Stephens (1865-1933)
Fourteen men / Mary Gilmore (1865-1962)
Where the dead men lie / Barcroft Boake (1866-1892)
Australia / Bernard O'Dowd (1866-1953)
In a dry season / Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
from: On our selection! / Steele Rudd (1868-1935)
War time / Mary E Fullerton (1868-1946)
from: Seven little Australians / Ethel Turner (1870-1958)
She is the night: all horror is of her
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills
O desolate eves along the way, how oft
Land I came thro' last was dumb with night / Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)
from: Fortunes of Richard Mahony / Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
from: Jonah / Louis Stone (1871-1935)
Transports / John Le Gay Brereton (1871-1933)
Petition to DN McLeod, vice-chairman of the Victorian board for the protection of Aborigines / Maggie Mobourne (c 1872-1917)
from: Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland / Constance Campbell Petrie (1872-1926)
Poor, poor country / John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942)
Aborigines, their traditions and customs: where did they come from?
Voice of the great spirit / David Unaipon (1872-1967)
Under the black flag / Anna Morgan (1874-1935)
Star-tribes / Fred Biggs (c 1875-1961) and Roland Robinson (1912-1992)
from: Songs of a sentimental bloke / CJ Dennis (1876-1938)
from: Time is not yet ripe / Louis Esson (1878-1943)
Said Hanrahan / PJ Hartigan (1878-1952)
from: My brilliant career
Letter to Katharine Susannah Prichard / Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
from: On the wool track / C E W Bean (1879-1968)
from: Magic Pudding / Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)
from: Middle parts of fortune / Frederic Manning (1882-1935)
Aborigines claim citizen rights! / William Ferguson (1882-1950) and John Patten (1905-1957)
Sick assailant / Anna Wickham (1883-1947)
Letter to Miles Franklin / Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969)
My country / Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
from: Fourteen years / Nettie Palmer (1885-1964)
My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies
Grotesque / Lesbia Harford (1891-1927)
from: Outbreak of love / Martin Boyd (1893-1972)
from: Sugar heaven / Jean Devanny (1894-1962)
Forgotten people / Robert Menzies (1894-1978)
from: Fortunate life / A B Facey (1894-1982)
Persimmon tree / Marjorie Barnard (1897-1987)
from: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / M Barnard Eldershaw (1897-1987 Barnard; 1897-1956 Eldershaw)
Letter to Jim Bassett / Norman Harris (c 1898-1968)
via the bridge / Ricketty Kate (1898-1971)
Cultural Cringe / A A Phillips (1900-1985)
Backless Betty from Bondi
Beach burial / Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971)
from: Capricornia / Xavier Herbert (1901-1984)
from: Timeless land / Eleanor Dark (1901-1985)
Radio broadcast / Pearl Gibbs (1901-1983)
from: Upsurge / JM Harcourt (1902-1971)
Uncle Morgan at the Nats / Christina Stead (1902-1983)
Grey kangaroo / Alan Marshall (1902-1984)
from: Come in spinner / Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981) and Florence James (1902-1993)
Wind at your door / Robert D Fitzgerald (1902-1987)
Where the cooler bars grow / Lennie Lower (1903-1947)
from: Pea pickers / Eve Langley (1904-1974)
Nightshift / John Morrison (1904-1998)
Letter to the editor / Doug Nicholls (1906-1988)
Mayan books / A D Hope (1907-2000)
from: Alien son / Judah Waten (1911-1985)
from: Watcher on the cast-iron balcony / Hal Porter (1911-1984).
from: Ride on a stranger / Kylie Tennant (1912-1988)
Miss Slattery and her demon lover / Patrick White (1912-1990)
from: My brother Jack / George Johnston (1912-1970)
Boomerang racket / Joe Timbery (1912-1978)
Sombrero / Douglas Stewart (1913-1985)
Ahh-bush-honey there! / Bill Neidjie (c 1913-2002)
from: Diaries of Donald Friend / Donald Friend (1914-1989)
Tomb of lieutenant John Learmonth, AIF / J S Monifold (1915-1985)
Nigger's leap, New England
Skins / Judith Wright (1915-2000)
Australian dream / David Campbell (1915-1979)
from: History of Australia / Manning Clark (1915-1991)
Yirrkala bark petition / Yirrkala People
Letter to Mr H E Giese, director of Aboriginal welfare, NT / Narritjin Maymuru (c 1916-1981)
from: Tirra Lirra by the river / Jessica Anderson (b 1916)
Father, mother, son / James McAuley (1917-1976)
Walker / Jack Davis (1917-2000)
Petit testament / Ern Malley
Gurindji petition to Lord Casey, Governor general / Vincent Lingiari (1919-1988)
Christmas parcel / Olga Masters (1919-1986)
from: Pride against prejudice / Ida West (1919-2003)
Almond-tree in the King James version
Reading aloud / Rosemary Dobson (b 1920)
from: Sun on the stubble / Colin Thiele (1920-2006)
Speech launching the petition of the federal council for Aboriginal advancement
Aboriginal charter of rights
Ballad of the totems / Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993)
from: Aunts up the cross / Robin Dalton (b 1920)
Father and child (part 1)
Letter to Tony Riddell / Gwen Harwood (1920-1995)
from: Summer of the seventeenth doll / Ray Lawler (B 1921)
from: Education of young Donald / Donald Horne (1921-2005)
from: Auntie Rita / Rita Huggins (1921-1996) and Jackie Huggins (b 1956)
from: East of time / Jacob G Rosenberg (1922-2008)
Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod
from: Wild card / Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002)
Images in Aspic / Charmian Clift (1923-1969)
from: Million wild acres / Eric Rolls (1923-2007)
Night runner / Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007)
from: Karobran / Monica Clare (1924-1973)
War two (parts 1 & 2) / Francis Webb (1925-1973)
Golden builders (part 1) / Vincent Buckley (1925-1988)
from: It's raining in Mango / Thea Astley (1925-2004)
from: I always been moving! / Jessie Lennon (c 1925-2000)
from: One day of the year / Alan Seymour (b 1927)
Letters to live poets (parts 1 & 6) / Bruce Beaver (1928-2004)
On this day I complete my fortieth year
What I have written I have written / Peter Porter (b 1929)
Parellels / R A Simpson (1929-2002)
from: Sacred places / K S Inglis (b 1929)
from: Rush that never ended / Geoffrey Blainey (b 1930)
Dragon of Kashmir / Mena Abdullah (b 1930) and Ray Mathew (1929-2002)
Victorian hangman tells his love
Good Friday was had by all / Bruce Dawe (b 1930)
Muralkarra/crow / Frank Malkorda (c 1930-1993)
from People in glass houses / Shirley Hazzard (b 1931)
from: Year of living dangerously / Christopher Koch (b 1932)
Sydney perhaps / Vivian Smith (b 1933)
Me and Jackomari talkin' about land rights
Speech at the Aboriginal tent embassy, Canberra
Song of dreamtime / Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993)
Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989
Makassar, 1956 / Fay Zwicky (b 1933)
Mother's day letter: not for posting / Jennifer Strauss (b 1933)
from: More please / Barry Humphries (b 1934)
New Year / Chris Wallace-Crabbe (b 1934)
Only speaker of his tongue
7 last words of the emperor Hadrian / David Malouf (b 1934)
from: Don't take your love to town / Ruby Langford Ginibi (b 1934)
from: Road from: Coorain / Jill Ker Conway (b 1934)
Brown skin baby / Bob Randall (b 1934)
from: Tiger's eye / Inga Clendinnen (b 1934)
from: Merry-go-round in the sea / Randolph Stow (b 1935)
from: Bring larks and heros
from: Schindler's ark / Thomas Keneally (b 1935)
Missing person / Rodney Hall (b 1935)
For Judith Wright / Thomas Shapcott (b 1935)
Letter to the editor / Charles Perkins (1936-2000)
from: Pemulwuy / Eric Willmot (b 1936)
Burnum Burnum declaration / Burnum Burnum (1936-1997)
from: Ancestor game / Alex Miller (b 1936)
Boat people-big trial / Herb Wharton (b 1936)
from: Follow the rabbit-proof fence / Doris Pilkingotn (b 1937)
Second essay on interest: the emu
Cool green / Les Murray (b 1938)
from: Forty-seventeen / Frank Moorhouse (b 1938)
from: Master of the ghost dreaming / Mudrooroo (b 1938)
from: Culture of complaint / Robert Hughes (b 1938)
from: Winter sparrows / Mary Rose Liverani (b 1939)
from: Unreliable memoirs / Clive James (b 1939)
Why I write what I write / Gerald Murnane (b 1939)
Tottie Tippett / Barbara Hanrahan (1939-1991)
from: Daddy, we hardly knew you / Germaine Greer (b 1939)
Ape / Peter Steele (b 1939)
Journeys west of 'war' / J S Harry (b 1939)
Smalltown memorials / Geoff Page (b 1940)
Dead father / Andrew Taylor (b 1940)
from: Yinti / Jimmy Pike (c 1940-2002)
from: Elizabeth Costello / J M Coetzee (b 1940)
Thirteen long-playing Haiku / Geoffrey Lehmann (b 1940)
Life of the party / Murray Bail (b 1941)
First poem-metamorphosis / Jennifer Rankin (1941-1979)
Ismini / Beverley Farmer (b 1941)
from: Shearers' motel / Roger McDonald (b 1941)
from: Here comes the nigger / Gerry Bostock (b 1942)
At the morgue / Helen Garner (b 1942)
from: Emerald City / David Williamson (b 1942)
To number one fella big white boss / John A Newfong (1943-1999)
Sonnets to be written from prison
Thinking of Eurydice at midnight / Robert Adamson (b 1943)
from: True history of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey (b 1943)
Lap, Phar / Barry Andrews (1943-1987).
Having completed my fortieth year
After Holderlin / John Tranter (b 1943)
Lizards / Barry Hill (b 1943)
from: Sweet water-stolen land / Philip McLaren (b 1943)
from: Sadness / William Yang (b 1943)
from: Snake cradle / Roberta Sykes (b c 1943)
from: Shark net / Robert Drewe (b 1943)
Addendum to the first fleet journals / Gerard Windsor (b 1944)
from: Mother's disgrace / Robert Dessaix (b 1944)
Ghost of the Swagman / Paul Keating (b 1944)
from: Glade within the grove / David Foster (b 1944)
Migrant hostel / Peter Skrzynecki (b 1945)
from: Damned whores and God's police / Anne Summers (b 1945)
Diptych / Robert Gray (b 1945)
Life cycle of the supermarket trolley
How democracy actually works / Michael Leunig (b 1945)
from: Little things big things grow / Kev Carmody (b 1946)
Poem for Gran / John Muk Muk Burke (b 1946)
from: Stravinsky's lunch / Drusilla Modjeska (b 1946)
Typewriter, considered as a bee-trap / Martin Johnston (1947-1990)
Slaughters of the Bulumwaal butcher / Bruce Pascoe (b 1947)
Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here? / Errol West (1947-2001)
from: Patrick White / David Marr (b 1947)
from: Camille's bread / Amanda Lohrey (b 1947)
Wool pickers / Alf Taylor (b 1947)
Flying / Michael Dransfield (1948-1973)
Plato's dog / John Scott (b 1948)
Barunga statement / Galarrwuy Yunupingu (b 1948)
Child's Christmas in Warrnambool / John Clarke (b 1948)
Welcome speech to conference on the position of Indigenous people in national constitutions / Patrick Dodson (b 1948)
At the wall / Pam Brown (b 1948)
Value of writers / Rosie Scott (b 1948)
Come on Aussie / Alan Weane (b 1948)
Rain governs the small hours / Alan Gould (b 1948)
from: Epigrams of martial
Air time / Laurie Duggan (b 1949)
from: Wandering girl / Glenyse Ward (b 1949)
Paris to Pam Brown / Ken Bolton (b 1949)
Emily Kngwarreye / Jennifer Martiniello (b 1949)
Your voice is my flute / Yahia Al-Samawy (b 1949)
Old Europe stared at her breakfast / Jennifer Maiden (b 1949)
Box / Kevin Brophy (b 1949)
Anzac day / John Forbes (1950-1998)
from: Lilian's story / Kate Grenville (b 1950)
Tunnel rats of Phuoc Tuy / Kenny Laughton (b 1950)
Seeing Gallipoli from the sky / Philip Salom (b 1950)
from: Radiance / Louis Nowra (b 1950)
We all bear the cost if apology is not paid / Mick Dodson (b 1950)
from: Carpentaria / Alexis Wright (b 1950)
from: Shanghai dancing / Brian Castro (b 1950)
Little red riding hood / Ania Walwicz (b 1951)
from: My place / Sally Morgan (b 1951)
from: Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on television / Marcia Langton (b 1951)
Sun pictorial / Stephen Edgar (b 1951)
Night before your return / Jill Jones (b 1951)
Australia / Peter Goldsworthy (b 1951)
from: Kadaitcha sung / Sam Watson (b 1952)
Facing the Pacific at night
Calm / Kevin Hart (b 1954)
from: Monkey's mask / Dorothy Porter (b 1954-2008)
from: Away / Michael Gow (b 1955)
Holocaust island / Graeme Dixon (b 1955)
Took the children away / Archie Roach (b 1955)
Modernity / Gail Jones (b 1955)
from: Rose boys / Peter Rose (b 1955)
Listening to the Chinese woman philosopher / Ouyang Yu (b 1955)
Critique of pure reason / Gig Ryan (b 1956)
Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, the rain bird
Wangkaja, the mangrove crab / Pat Torres (b 1956)
Treaty / Mandawuy Yunupingu (b 1956)
Saffron picker / Judith Beveridge (b 1956)
Let's get physical / Kerry Reed-Gilbert (b 1956)
from: Hotel Sorrento / Hannie Rayson (b 1957)
Opium tea / Nick Cave (b 1957)
from: Benang / Kim Scott (b 1957)
from: Hamilton case / Michelle De Kretser (b 1957)
Language of bleak averages
Profile of the dead / Anthony Lawrence (b 1957)
Shields strong, Nulla Nullas alive
Decorative rasp, weaved roots
For I come-death in custody
Dulpai-ila ngari Kim Mo-Man
Alcheringa / Lionel Fogarty (b 1958)
Take heart / Sarah Day (b 1958)
Cytotoxic rigor / Philip Hodgins (1959-1995)
from: Volcano / Venero Armanno (b 1959)
My father's axe / Tim Winton (b 1960)
Changi / Adam Aitken (b 1960)
Taxi / Lisa Bellear (1961-2006)
from: Sound of one hand clapping / Richard Flanagan (b 1961)
Fall / Jordie Albiston (b 1961)
Nettle song / Emma Lew (b 1962)
Totem poem (lines 1-245) / Luke Davies (b 1962)
Ash Saturday / Craig Sherborne (b 1962)
Two world one / Richard Frankland (b 1963)
Map: land subjected to inundation / John Kinsella (b 1963)
Eclipse, Kenwick, 1974 / Tracy Ryan (b 1964)
from: Dead Europe / Christos Tsiolkas (b 1965)
from: 1988 / Andrew McGahan (b 1966)
Republic of love / Delia Falconer (b 1966)
from: Steam pigs / Melissa Lucashenko (b 1967)
from: Of a boy / Sonya Hartnett (b 1968)
Genocide is never justified / Romaine Moreton (b 1969)
For the wake and skeleton dance
Cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale / Samuel Wagan Watson (b 1972)
from: Vietnam: a psychic guide / Chi Vu (b 1973)