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'Sarah Holland-Batt has truly disappointed with her stewardship of Best Australian Poems 2016. She did not follow her own guidelines for submissions, and thereby misled every poet submitting to this anthology, resulting in the omission of at least thirty poets who could have been included.' (Introduction)
Notes
Epigraph: the fixation on diversity in our schools and in the press has produced a generation of … progressives narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups … —Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
Responses to this essay can be found in the the Letters section of the April 2017 edition of Quadrant. :