In The Best Australian Poems 2009, award-winning poet Robert Adamson puts together a selection of the most outstanding poems written by Australian authors over the past year. Alongside renowned names, the editor has solicited contributions from new and emerging poets and some of their work appears in print here for the first time. The result is a vibrant and fascinating edition of this much-loved anthology.

Previous contributors include Judith Beveridge, Stephen Edgar, Sandy Fitts, Lisa Gorton, Clive James, John Kinsella, David Malouf, Peter Minter, Les Murray, Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter, Peter Rose, Craig Sherborne, Chris Wallace-Crabb, and many more.