Bernard Patrick O’Dowd was a poet who gave Australian poetry a more philosophical tone, supplanting the old bush ballads that had dominated for many years. Educated in the arts and law at the University of Melbourne, O’Dowd taught for a while, worked a
Australian idylls and bush rhymes : poems /Ernest G. HentyE. A. (Evelyn A.) Starkey
Henry Lawson is most famous for the poetry he wrote around the turn of the twentieth century about the Australian Bush. Sometimes called the outback, the bush is a rural part of interior Australia, and the people who wrote poetry about it are known as bush poets. At the time Lawson was ...
After 10 years as an actor, she started writing and producing her own work in 2014 with In The Surface Of A Bubble, about a world of dreams, then Super Hamlet 64, a one person show about videogames and Shakespeare, and Too Pretty To Punch, about celebrating trans and non binary people...
(1998)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award—which includes a long poem dedicated to jazz musicianCharlie Parkertitled “Testimony.” The poem was set to music by Australian saxophonist Sandy Evans and was performed by the Australian Art Orchestra and 11 vocalists at theSydney ...
BUSH BALLADS AND BULLDUST Australian Bush Ballads by Marc GlasbyPLEASE NOTE: THIS SITE HAS NOW BEEN RE WRITTEN. PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE LINK BELOW TO ACCESS THE NEW SITE: I have always been a great fan of the old Aussie bush ballads. I love to read Paterson and Lawson and I try to ...
James Hebblethwaite was an English-born Australian poet, church man and teacher. He was born on the 22ndSeptember 1857 in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a corn miller. The family had fallen on hard times and James had to take responsibility for his own education, gaining scholarships where...