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Internet Archive of Australian Poetry Resources.
Internet Archive of Australian Poetry Resources.
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/
Sydney and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Begun in 2004 with a
project has been funded by a major Linkage Grant from the Australian
Research Council (ARC), CAL and the University of Sydney Library. A team
Webby and John Tranter, in association with CAL, have developed the
This website currently contains over 42,000 poems, representing the work
of more than 170 Australian poets. All the poems are fully searchable, and
may be accessed and read freely on the World Wide Web. Readers wishing
to download and print poems may do so for a small fee, part of which is
returned to the poets via CAL, the Copyright Agency Limited. Teachers,
versions will be available from Sydney University Press in the near future.
It is hoped that the APL will encourage teachers to use more Australian
more available to readers in remote and regional areas and overseas. It will
also help Australian poets, not only by developing new audiences for their
copyright, thus solving the major problem associated with making this
recordings.
Cheers
Ross