My 2012 Books of the Year

Just in time for Christmas shopping, my books of the  year awards!

Fiction

 

Non-Fiction

Christopher Ricks – Dylan’s Vision of Sin

Poetry

Fire Diary – Mark Tredinnick

    

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Christmas shopping list.

Take this to Readings or Collected Works

Fiction
Richard Ford – Canada*
Gerald Murnane – A History of Books

Non-Fiction
Christopher Ricks – Dylan’s Vision of Sin*
Iain Sinclair – London Orbital
Robert Penn – It’s All about the Bike
Michael Langley – Journals
Tony Taylor – Fishing the River of Time
James Boyce – 1835
Paul Carter – Ground Truthing
Austin Kleon – Steal like an Artist
May Ward – The Comfort of Water
Geoff Nicholson – The Lost Art of Walking

Poetry
Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary (Puncher and Wattmann)
Robert Adamson – The Golden Bird
John Tranter – Starlight (UQP)
Lisa Jacobson – The Sunlit Zone (Five Islands)
Michael Sharkey – Another Fine Morning in Paradise (Five Islands)
Brook Emery – Collusion
John Tranter (ed) – Best Australian Poems 2012 (BlackInc)

You can read the full list, and past winners on my website here as well