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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Kenneth Mackenzie
Kenneth Mackenzie was born in 1913 in South Perth. His parents divorced in 1919, and he grew up with his mother and maternal grandfather on a property at Pinjarra, south of Perth. He was a sensitive child who developed an intense love of nature.
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Kathryn Apel
Kathryn Apel is a born-and-bred farm girl who’s scared of cows. She lives among the gum trees, cattle and kangaroos on a Queensland grazing property. Her previous books include the rollicking rural rhymer, This is the Mud! and the verse novel, …
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Kath Walker in China
Collection of poems in English with translations into Putonghua (modern standard Chinese) on Chinese…
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
Publisher:
Jacaranda Press
Published year:
1988
Teacher Resource
Essay
Judith Wright
Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New South Wales in 1915. Her collections of poetry include The Moving Image (1946), Woman to Man (1949), The Gateway (1953), The Two Fires (1955), Birds (1962), Five Senses (The Forest) (1963), City Sunrise (1964…
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Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge is one of Australia's most acclaimed poets, taught in high schools and universities, winner of the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Awards, a highly regarded critic, editor and teacher of poetry. She has published six collections of …
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John Tranter
John Tranter is an internationally renowned poet. His many volumes of poetry include Under Berlin (UQP 1988), which won the Grace Leven Prize, and At the Florida (UQP 1993). He edited the controversial anthology The New Australian Poetry, and co-…
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Jill Jones
Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her work has been published extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and UK. Her first book, The Mask and the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. The Book of Possibilities, 1997, was …
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Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887–1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, and her first novel, Purple Threads, won …
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Jazz Money
Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on sovereign Gadigal land. Her poetry has been published widely and reimagined as murals, installations, digital interventions and film. Jazz’s poetry has been recognised with …
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