This anthology, first published in 1993, contains work by a wide range of Australian poets from the colonial era to the contemporary age. Poets featured include
New Zealand writers include: Arthur Adams, Johannes Andersen, Blanche Baughan, Thomas Bracken, Hubert Church, Mary Colborne-Veel, Jessie MacKay, Isabel Peacocke
The Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse is the first anthology to offer a full record of Australian women's poetry from European settlement to the present.