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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.
Pages in category "World War I poems" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
In 1914, when war broke out Louise Mack was in Belgium where she continued to work as the first woman war correspondent for the Evening News and the London Daily Mail. [4] [5] Her eye-witness account of the German invasion of Antwerp and her adventures—A Woman's Experiences in the Great War—was published in 1915.
This category is for poets who wrote war poetry around the time of World War I. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 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.
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]
"Nationality" is a poem by Australian poet Mary Gilmore. [1] It was first published in Australian Poetry 1942, edited by Robert D. Fitzgerald in 1942, [2] and later in the poet's collection Selected Verse, and other Australian poetry anthologies.