Ah – it's that time of year when poets all over Australia lie awake wondering if they've been given the nod, picked from the madding crowd and been borne aloft, up and into the firmament of those whose poems are best. Have I mixed enough metaphors for ya yet?

It looks like Robert Adamson – on his second outing in the editor's chair – has put together another year-ending collection of awesome with work by: Ali Alizadeh, Chris Andrews, Meera Atkinson, Luke Beesley, Judith Beveridge, Judith Bishop, Ken Bolton, Peter Boyle, Michael Brennan, David Brooks, Jen Jewel Brown, Pam Brown, Allison Browning, Joanne Burns, Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Eileen Chong, Justin Clemens, Stuart Cooke, Nathan Curnow, Luke Davies, Bruce Dawe, Tricia Dearborn, B.R. Dionysius, Lucy Dougan, Laurie Duggan, Will Eaves, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Stephen Edgar, Chris Edwards, Anne Elvey, Brook Emery, Kate Fagan, Michael Farrell, Susan Fealy, Liam Ferney, S.J. Finn, Lionel Fogarty, Adam Ford, Adam Formosa, Angela Gardner, Claire Gaskin, Jane Gibian, Keri Glastonbury, Lisa Gorton, Robert Gray, Martin Harrison, Kevin Hart, Matt Hetherington, Barry Hill, Sarah Holland Batt, L.K. Holt, Duncan Hose, Lisa Jacobson, Carol Jenkins, A. Frances Johnson, Jill Jones, Frank Kellaway, Peter Kenneally, Graeme Kinross-Smith, John Kinsella, Andy Kissane, Anna Krien, Mike Ladd, Martin Langford, Anthony Lawrence, Michelle Leber, Geoffrey Lehmann, Kate Lilley, Debbie Lim, Astrid Lorange, Cameron Lowe, Roberta Lowing, Anthony Lynch, Jennifer Maiden, Rhyll McMaster, Kate Middleton, Peter Minter, Anne Morgan, Derek Motion, Les Murray, Jenni Nixon, Nguyen Tien Hoang, Geoff Page, Pi.0, Claire Potter, Peter Rose, Josephine Rowe, Robyn Rowland, Brendan Ryan, Gig Ryan, Jaya Savige, Thomas Shapcott, Craig Sherborn, Andrew Slattery, Vivian Smith, Peter Steele, James Stuart, Maria Takolander, Hugh Tolhurst, John Tranter, Mark Tredinnick, Louise Wakeling, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Meredith Wattison, Petra White, Chloe Wilson, Fiona Wright & Ouyang Yu.

Congratulations to those of our members included this year.

New members: as you can see by the links above sydneypoetry.com members are in the mix. We of course take no credit, but if you've just joined this site you now know you're in good company.

You also now know what to ask for in your festive stocking.

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