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50 Best British Writers since 1945 - and 50 Best Australian Writers since 1945

Hey, I am amazed at the rankings of this list! Maybe it is not meant to be in order, but they have numbered them - with Philip Larkin at Number One! And Ted Hughes at ... We'll all have a different scale, won't we. Take a look - anyone missing?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece

Now, how about an Aussie list?

50 Best Australian Writers since 1945 ...
(in no particular order)

Helen Garner,
Peter Carey,
Tim Winton,
Patrick White,
Gwen Harwood,
Vincent Buckley,
David Williamson,
AD Hope,
David Malouf,
John Tranter,
Les Murray,
Robert Adamson,
Kevin Hart,
Peter Cowan,
Shirley Hazzard,
Janette Turner-Hospital,
Frank Moorhouse,
Hal Porter,
Randolph Stowe,
Andrew Taylor,
Dorothy Hewett,
Thom Shapcott,
John Forbes,
Judith Wright,
Thomas Kenneally,
Glenda Adams,
Elizabeth Jolley,
Kim Scott,
Kenneth Slessor,
Thea Astley,
Bruce Dawe,
Morris Gleitzman,
John Marsden,
Clive James,
Kate Grenville,
Ern Malley,
Bruce Beaver,
Peter Porter,
John Kinsella,
Geoff Page,
Jack Davis,
John Blight,
Geraldine Brooks,
Paul Jennings,
Brenda Walker,
Gail Jones,
Dorothy Porter ...


Ah, I don't know how many there now. Feel free to add, subtract, and disagree. Thanks to my wife Jeanette for contributing to this list as well.

Island Press - still going strong!

Please note that Island Press now has a webpage. It is interesting looking back at the poets Island has hosted over the decades. We will be successively adding to the links on this page.

http://islandpress.tripod.com/ISLAND.htm

Cheers


Les Wicks


Illustrated: SWAMP RIDDLES a 1973 collection by Robert Adamson, hand-set and printed by P.Roberts



Island Press was founded in 1970 by Canadian poet, musician and Sydney University lecturer Philip Roberts. He lived on Scotland Island at that time, hence the name. In 1973 Philip moved to Bundeena. The first ten Island Press books were printed on expensive paper on a an old hand-operated press, with hand-set lead type. In the mid seventies this press was sold to Sydney University where it was used to print diplomas for a few years. In 1979 Philip Roberts returned to Canada and gave Island Press to Philip Hammial. PH moved to Woodford in the Blue Mountains in late 1994. In 1993 Island Press became a co-operative with nine members, now eleven. Over its long career Island has published over 50 titles.