A. D. Hope
A. D. (Alec) Hope (1907–2000) is one of the most influential and celebrated Australian poets of the twentieth century. In 1951, he took a post as the first professor of English at the newly founded Canberra University College, later the Australian …
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Hope: Selected Poetry and Prose
This volume contains the best and most characteristic of a lifetime’s work by one of Australia’s…
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Author:
A. D. Hope
Publisher:
Halstead Press
Published year:
2000
Teacher Resource
Essay
The Monkey’s Mask
The Monkey's Mask is a totally unique experience. It's poetry. It's a crime thriller. It's where …
Author:
Dorothy Porter
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Published year:
1994
Les Murray
Les Murray (1938–2019) lived in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. The author of some thirty books, his work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1996 he was awarded …
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My People: A Kath Walker Collection
Oodgeroo's writing is often a provocative and passionate plea for justice. My People is a collection…
Author:
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published year:
1970
Gig Ryan
Gig Ryan has published six collections of poetry, including Pure and Applied, which won the 1999 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry, and Heroic Money, which was shortlisted for the 2002 NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry. The recipient of writers…
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New and Selected Poems
Gig Ryan’s poems have exerted an influence over two generations of writers and readers since the …
Year:
Tertiary
Author:
Gig Ryan
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Published year:
2011
Essay
Thomas Shapcott
Thomas Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, in 1935. He has published 15 collections of poems, as well as eight novels and over 20 libretti. Translations of his work in book form have been published in Hungary, Romania and the Republic of …
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Shapcott: Selected Poems
This fine selection brings together the best work of one of Australia's most significant poets. The …
Author:
Thomas Shapcott
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
1978
Kenneth Slessor
Often called one of Australia's finest and most important modern poets, Kenneth Adolf Slessor was born on 27 March 1901. After attending school, first at Mowbray House in Chatswood and then at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, he chose not…
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