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There were five main arenas where Australian Great War Poetry was written in the period of 1914 to 1939: the Home Front, Gallipoli, The Middle East, The Western Front and England. These arenas were to form important segregations of poetic attitude and interest specific to the war mood at the time.
The Australian and Other Verses (1916), 81 poems, frontispiece and title page with illustrations by Hal Gye, published by Angus & Robertson in two sizes. A 1982 reprint was done by Angus and Robertson. In consideration of World War I, HarperCollins Australia republished the works in March 2018, as the 1916 trench edition
The Australian and Other Verses is a collection of poetry by the Scottish-Australian writer Will H. Ogilvie, published by Angus and Robertson, in 1916. [1] The collection includes two illustrated plates by Hal Gye. [1] The collection consists of 81 poems from a variety of sources. [1]
Australian World War I poets (3 P) Pages in category "20th-century Australian poets" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 242 total.
The poets listed below were either citizens or residents of Australia or published the bulk of their poetry whilst living there. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
"Beach Burial" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. [1]It was originally published in Southerly journal in 1944, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
When war broke out, Manning was keen to enlist, possibly to escape from a stifling environment and to widen his horizons. A man with his fragile constitution and unhealthy lifestyle was not going to be an attractive proposition for the military authorities, but in October 1915 after several attempts, his persistence paid off and he enlisted in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
Kenneth Adolphe Slessor OBE (27 March 1901 – 30 June 1971) [1] was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. [2] The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.