The Australian poetry index provides references to Western Australian poetry appearing in published anthologies and serials in the collections of the Battye Library and State Library. 

WA authors of poems have been defined broadly to include any writer with a significant involvement in Western Australian literary activity. Thus, as well as writers of Western Australian birth, writers who have taken up residence in Western Australia or whose creative activity is significantly associated with Western Australia are included.

Whenever known, if a poem has appeared in more than one publication, details of all the publications in which it has appeared are provided in the poetry index entry.

Searching for Poems in the Catalogue

You can search for poems using the Australian Poetry Index.  Poems can be searched using any of the available search options such as author, title, or keyword. The first lines of poems can be searched using the title search option.

You can also search for poems in the State Library catalogue.  After performing a search you can click on the 'Limit search' button on the search results screen to limit the search results to poems only.  On the limit search screen under the criterion 'Material type' select 'Aust Poetry' from the drop down list and click on the grey bar 'Limit/search items retrieved using above data'.  The results will be the poems from your original search results.