ABSTRACT
Collections and anthologies, for example, The New Oxford Book of Australian Poetry (Murray 1986) or The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (Curnow 1960) have also, by the values implicit in their selection, been important sites for recording and even initiating shifts in critical taste and cultural stance. Witness, for instance, the very different bias and temper of Allen Curnow’s collection of New Zealand verse and that of the more recent edition edited by lan Wedde in 1985 (see Wedde 1985a and 1985b).
