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Poet

Occupation - Poet
Adams, Robert Dudley
Barton, Emily Mary
Brand, Mona
Brennan, Christopher
Campbell, David Watt Ian
Corringham, Mary
Cross, Zora
Dennis, CJ
Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton
Guiterman, Rosine
Harpur, Charles
Harry, Jan S
Heiss, Anita
Hewett, Dorothy
Jones, Jill
Keesing, Nancy
Kendall, Henry
Lilley, Merv
Mackellar, Dorothea
Maiden, Jennifer
Malley, Ernest Lalor (Ern)
Matthews, Harley
McAuley, James
McManamey, John Fraser
Murray, Les
Muskett, Alice Jane
Rawlins, Adrian
Robinson, Michael Massey
Slessor, Kenneth
Smith, Vivian
Stewart, Douglas
Stewart, Harold
Thompson, John Joseph
Tompson, Charles
Tranter, John
Viidikas, Vicki
Webb, Francis
Witting, Amy
Wright, David McKee
Wright, Judith
Position - Poet of Backless Betty from Bondi
Slessor, Kenneth
Position - Poet of Darlinghurst Nights
Slessor, Kenneth
Position - Poet of Five Bells
Slessor, Kenneth
1939

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Poet

Adams, Robert Dudley

Businessman and poet who took out mining rights across Sydney in 1874, leading to the establishment of the Balmain colliery. He lived with his family at the cottage they built, Fernlee, at Snails Bay, Balmain.

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Barton, Emily Mary

Free settler who lived at Parramatta before marrying and beginning life as a pioneer settler at Molong where her 9 children were raised. She returned to live in Ryde as a respected member of the landed gentry.

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Brand, Mona

Playwright, poet and freelance writer who wrote over 24 plays and, whilst living, was better known in Europe than in Australia. Her topics were often new to Australian playwriting.

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Brennan, Christopher

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Poet, teacher and classical scholar who was a noted bon vivant.

Campbell, David Watt Ian

Australian poet whose studies in Cambridge and rugby union prowess lead to him representing England in the 1930s.

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Corringham, Mary

Journalist, art critic and poet.

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Cross, Zora

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Australian poet, novelist and journalist.

Dennis, CJ

Poet and freelance journalist whose reputation was largely built around the sentiment and humour of The Sentimental Bloke.

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Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton

Lyric writer who took a great interest in the welfare and folklore of Aborigines near her home at Wollombi in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney. Some of her lyrics were set to music by Isaac Nathan.

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Guiterman, Rosine

Jewish activist, poet and humanitarian whose commitment to teaching, social action and the theatre seemed inexhaustible.

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Harpur, Charles

Poet and critic who had literary and political ambitions for the country and was a major contributor to the periodical press for over four decades.

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Harry, Jan S

Poet, satirist and political and social commentator.

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Heiss, Anita

Author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

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Hewett, Dorothy

Feminist poet, novelist and playwright.

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Jones, Jill

Poet and writer.

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Keesing, Nancy

Author of poetry, childrens novels, biography and literary criticism.

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Kendall, Henry

Poet whose work celebrating the Australian landscape was popular and widely published during the 1870s and 1880s.

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Lilley, Merv

Queensland-born writer and poet who spent his early years in the timber and mining industries. He was also a political activist and joined the Communist Party of Australia. From the early 1950s he was a poet, songwriter and short story writer.

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Mackellar, Dorothea

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Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was a poet and fiction writer. Her work My Country is one of Australia's best known poems.

Maiden, Jennifer

Poet and facilitator at writing workshops with a variety of community and educational institutions.

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Malley, Ernest Lalor (Ern)

Fictitious poet created by James McAuley and Harold Stewart. The poetry was to become one of Australia's greatest literary hoaxes humiliating Max Harris, the founder of the magazine 'Angry Penguins' who published them in his role as a champion of modernist poetry.

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Matthews, Harley

Writer, soldier and vigneron whose vineyard became a popular venue for Sydney's Bohemia.

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McAuley, James

Poet and public intellectual who often courted controversy, most notably as part of the Ern Malley hoax.

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McManamey, John Fraser

Poet and rector who converted Woodford House into a school.

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Murray, Les

Poet, anthologist and critic who has published over 30 volumes of poetry.

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Muskett, Alice Jane

Artist and author who was the second pupil of the Julian Ashton Art School and also published verse and short stories.

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Rawlins, Adrian

Australian poet, performer and one of the country's first music journalists.

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Robinson, Michael Massey

Convict poet and public servant transported for blackmail who used his writing skills to both praise and offend his many mentors.

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Slessor, Kenneth

Poet, war correspondent and journalist whose poetic imagery of Sydney is vividly portrayed in many of his works, including Five Bells.

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Smith, Vivian

Poet, highly respected critic and longtime professor at the University of Sydney.

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Stewart, Douglas

Poet whose love of the bush and the natural world inspired many of his works.

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Stewart, Harold

Poet and oriental scholar who is best remembered as the co-creator of Ern Malley.

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Thompson, John Joseph

Poet and broadcaster who wrote and narrated many radio documentaries and is remembered for his activism in urban conservation in Paddington.

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Tompson, Charles

Son of a convict who was educated at Reverend Henry Fulton's parish school at Castlereagh. His verse was first published in 1823 and a volume 'Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel' appeared in 1826 - the first by an Australian born poet.

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Tranter, John

Poet whose innovation and experimentalism has included an online journal and is evident in more than 20 books of poetry.

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Viidikas, Vicki

Poet and prose writer whose travels in India and Asia framed recurrent themes in her poems.

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Webb, Francis

Poet who wrote prodigiously despite a lifetime battle with mental illness.

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Witting, Amy

Pen name used by Joan Fraser, novelist and poet.

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Wright, David McKee

Poet and journalist

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Wright, Judith

Poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights, whose writing often dealt with the relationship between settlers, Indigenous Australians and the bush.

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Backless Betty from Bondi

Humorous poem written in 1930 by Kenneth Slessor, and published in a collection of the same name.

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Darlinghurst Nights

Book of humorous poems by Kenneth Slessor depicting inner-city life in Sydney. The poems first appeared in Smith's Weekly.

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Five Bells

Poem which sketches the immediacy of Australian life in the formative years before the war whilst recalling the drowning of young artist Joe Lynch in 1927.

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