Hope: Selected Poetry and Prose
This volume contains the best and most characteristic of a lifetime’s work by one of Australia’s…
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This volume contains the best and most characteristic of a lifetime’s work by one of Australia’s…
Teacher Resource EssayFollow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and …
Teacher ResourceA groundbreaking collection of work from some of the great Australian Aboriginal writers, …
Peter Minter is a prize-winning poet, editor and reviewer. He is the author of several collections of poetry including blue grass, Empty Texas and Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin, was the editor of the Varuna New Poetry series, a founding editor of Cordite …
View Books by Peter MinterA landmark anthology of Australian literary writing across all genres from over two centuries, this …
EssayDaisy's life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, …
Teacher ResourceA.B. 'Banjo' Paterson was born at Narrambla Station near Orange in New South Wales. He worked as a lawyer's clerk before becoming a solicitor. After the publication of The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses in 1895, he became something of a …
View Books by A.B. Paterson'Without doubt Judy was the worst of the seven, probably because she was the cleverest.' Her father…
Teacher ResourceDorothy Hewett achieved distinction as a playwright, poet and novelist. Her stage works include The Chapel Perilous, Mrs Porter and the Angels, Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly, The Golden Oldies, Pandora's Cross, The Man from Mukinupin, Golden Valley, …
View Books by Dorothy HewettJack Davis (1917–1999) began writing when he was fourteen years old. The fourth child in a family of eleven, he spent his childhood in the West Australian mill town of Yarloop. He worked for several years as a stockman in the north before returning…
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