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60 Classic Australian Poems is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008. [ 1 ] The collection contains 60 poems from a variety of sources, along with a commentary on each from the editor.
In 1878 Farrell published, using the name John O'Farrell, Ephemera: An Iliad of Albury, a small pamphlet of verse, and a rare Australian publication. [2] Two Stories, a Fragmentary Poem was published in Melbourne in 1882, and about this period he began to be a regular contributor to The Bulletin. [2]
John Forbes (1 September 1950 – 23 January 1998) was an Australian poet. [1] Forbes was born in Melbourne, but during his childhood his family lived in northern Queensland, Malaya and New Guinea. [2] He went to Sydney University, and his circle of friends included the poets Robert Adamson, Martin Johnston, and John Tranter.
Indigenous Australian literature is the fiction, plays, poems, essays and other works authored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. While a letter written by Bennelong to Governor Arthur Phillip in 1796 is the first known work written in English by an Aboriginal person, David Unaipon was the first Aboriginal author to ...
John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) Philip Neilsen (born 1949) poet and children's author; Hume Nisbet (1849–1923) Scottish-Australian author and artist; Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (1920–1993) Indigenous Australian poet and human rights activist
John Joseph Meagher Thompson (20 December 1907 – 19 July 1968) was an Australian poet, writer and radio broadcaster. Thompson was born in Kew, Victoria , Australia. [ 1 ] He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and the University of Melbourne , where he obtained a BA in 1929.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Australian poets. ... Pages in category "Australian women poets" The following 187 pages are in this category, out of ...
In January 1893 John Shaw Neilson won the junior prize for a poem at the Australian Natives' Association's competition, in the same year that his father won the senior prize. [1] In 1895 he went with his father to Sea Lake, and about a year later had some verses accepted by The Bulletin in Sydney. But his health broke down and he did little ...