Verse Novel - Recent Examples

Recent Examples

• The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Les Murray (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980)
• The Illusionists, John Fuller (London: Secker & Warburg, 1980)
• Midquest: A Poem, Fred Chappell (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981)
• The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth (London: Faber & Faber, 1986)
• Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons, Marilyn Hacker (New York: Norton, 1986)
• Omeros, Derek Walcott (London: Faber & Faber, 1990)
• Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clarke (Vancouver: Polestar, 1990; rev. ed. 2000)
• Akhenaten, Dorothy Porter (St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, 1992)
• The Floor of Heaven, John Tranter (Sydney: Collins Angus & Robertson, 1992)
• The Monkey's Mask: An Erotic Murder Mystery, Dorothy Porter (Sydney: Hyland House Publishing, 1994)
• History: The Home Movie, Craig Raine (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994)
• Turner, David Dabydeen (London: Jonathan Cape, 1994)
• Prophets, Kwame Dawes (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1995)
• Jacko Jacobus, Kwame Dawes (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1996)
• South: An Antarctic Journey, Chris Orsman (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1996)
• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson (New York: Knopf, 1998)
• Bill of Rights, Fred D'Aguiar (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998)
• Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, Les Murray (Manchester: Carcanet, 1999)
• Jack, the Lady Killer, H. R. F. Keating (Hexham: Flambard, 1999)
• What a Piece of Work, Dorothy Porter (Sydney: Picador, 1999)
• Bloodlines, Fred D'Aguiar (London: Chatto & Windus, 2000)
• Tiepolo's Hound, Derek Walcott (London: Faber & Faber, 2000)
• Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, 2001)
• The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson (London: Jonathan Cape, 2001)
• Ancestors, Edward Kamau Brathwaite (New York: New Directions Press, 2001)
• Darlington's Fall, Brad Leithauser (New York: Knopf, 2002)
• Wild Surmise, Dorothy Porter (Sydney: Picador, 2002)
• Captain Cook in the Underworld, Robert Sullivan (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002)
• The Prodigal (verse novel), Derek Walcott (London: Faber & Faber, 2004)
• This Barren Land My Bed of Roses (verse novel), Ayana Noble (University of Queensland Press, 2006)
• The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, Margarita Engle (Juvenile/Children's) (New York: Henry Holt, 2006)
• Nine Hours North, Tim Sinclair (Melbourne: Penguin, 2006)
• Muscle, Matthew Schreuder (Sydney: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007)
• El Dorado, Dorothy Porter (Sydney: Picador, 2007)
• Zorgamazoo, Robert Paul Weston (New York: Penguin/Razorbill, 2008)
• I & I, George Elliott Clarke (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2009)
• View from Mount Diablo, Ralph Thompson (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2003; rev. & annotated ed., 2009)
• Lonesome Howl, Allen & Unwin