In The Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who's who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page's selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry scene. Poets include . . . Robert Adamson * Jordie Albiston* Judith Beveridge * Eileen Chong * Joe Dolce * Lin van Hek * Nigel Roberts * Robyn Rowland * Jennifer Compton * Kevin Hart * Lisa Gorton * Clive James * Rozanna Lilley * Tony Page * Michael Sharkey * Chris Wallace-Crabbe * Fiona Wright * Jakob Ziguras * Les Murray * Fay Zwicky * Jamie Grant * Lucy Dougan * Ali Cobby Eckermann * Kevin Brophy * Billy Marshall Stoneking * Bruce Dawe * Anne Elvey * Geoff Goodfellow * Jennifer Maiden and many more . . . 'The human desire for patterned language is as strong as the need for narrative.' Geoff Page