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Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, "Homecoming"
Years ago I had a student just beginning Year 12 at a Jewish school north of Sydney; Bruce Dawe’s poetry was our first mission. Over the Christmas holidays (well, that’s what I’d cal… more →
Floating Life 4/06 ~ 11/07
Australian poem 2008 series #15 — John Shaw Neilson "The Orange Tree"
Neil wrote 5 months ago: Perhaps recent events have brought this poem to mind… John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is one of … more →
Australian poem 2008 series #14 — Rosemary Dobson (1920 - )
Neil wrote 6 months ago: I note Rosemary Dobson’s work is set from 2009 in the HSC, so more may appear later on at Engl … more →
Australian poem: 2008 series #8 -- Indigenous poetry
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Neil wrote 8 months ago: A recent comment on my Indigenous Australians page was followed by an email from the commenter with … more →
Australian Poem: 2008 series #4 and #5 -- two for the price of one
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Neil wrote 9 months ago: You could say these poems are a comment on the discussion that has been taking place over at my OzPo … more →
Christmas poem #3: Robert Graves "The Cool Web"
Neil wrote 11 months ago: I first heard this poem at an English Teachers Association Conference, I think it was, and it was re … more →
Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, "Homecoming"
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Neil wrote 11 months ago: Years ago I had a student just beginning Year 12 at a Jewish school north of Sydney; Bruce Dawe … more →
Friday Australian poem #15: Les Murray, "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow"
Neil wrote 1 year ago: This is a poem that has grown with me as I have read and reread it over the past thirty years and mo … more →
A Selection of Kitten Verse by Oliver Herford
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 1 year ago: _____ Oliver Herford was born in Sheffield, England in 1863 and … more →
Friday Australian poem #12a
Neil wrote 1 year ago: We couldn’t have a #13, could we? In fact if you check “Men in Green” again y … more →
Friday Australian poem #12: David Campbell "Men in Green"
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: This poem is literally the same age as I am, having been first published in The Bulletin in 1943. Da … more →
Friday Australian poem #11: "Because" by James McAuley
Neil wrote 1 year ago: James Phillip McAuley (1917-1976) is, as you may see from that article, still something of a Ri … more →
Friday Australian poem #8: Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971)
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Reading aloud this moving elegy on a dead friend and colleague of Slessor — Joe Lynch, who fel … more →
Friday Australian Poem #5: Judith Wright "For a Pastoral Family"
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: This poem is in the 1985 collection Phantom Dwelling, in a section labelled “Poems 1979-1980 … more →
Friday Australian poem #4: Judith Wright
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: This poem has been a favourite of mine for over forty years. It brings back nights by a roaring fir … more →
Decline of Australian Literature revisited
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Jim Belshaw has posted again today on the “decline” in Australian literature. Note … more →
The Long-Awaited, Unabating, Top 30 All-Time Greatest Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 1 year ago: _____ Below is a countdown of the top 30 poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was born in Day … more →
The Official Top 20 Countdown of the All Time Greatest Love Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 1 year ago: _____ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) with a friend I have been readin … more →
Reading the Bible
Neil wrote 1 year ago: To quote the appropriate page for today from Deng Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao: Daily Meditations: Don … more →
Poetry's Decline?
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Maybe, maybe not. Jim Belshaw and I share a love for Judith Wright’s poetry. My mother, who … more →
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