AnniVersaries : 366 linked poems, one for every day of the Australian year
Brandl & Schlesinger, 1998, 454 pp.
These poems define Australian mythologies. They also celebrate the achievement of great Australians and connect these and other people with large and significant issues. They assert the significance of love, work and family in the pursuit of happiness; demonstrate the imaginative genius of the people and vindicate Canberra as national capital and connect it with a wider community in which are described some of the enormous diversity of the flora, fauna and natural and built environments of Australia. Back cover comments by Judith Wright, Phillip Adams and Les Murray. 454pp.
Now out of print, but available through me.
Praise for AnniVersaries
"Meticulously researched, highly poetic and most original work." -- Judith Wright
"A
remarkable piece of work -- a poem for every day of an epic year, encompassing Australia's history,
mythology, landscape and eccentricities. Poetry doesn't begin to describe what Aslanides has written. This
is cinema, music, dance, painting, blazing energy." -- Phillip Adams
"AnniVersaries
is overwhelmingly positive, full of crowding life and vigour, full indeed of a bewildering richness of human
difference, all drawn from what is often dismissed as outworn Australian life and tradition. It fulfils the
timeless duty of giving a community good and noble human models in which it can take pride, and it makes a
wealth of discoveries which refresh our sense of Australia." -- Les Murray