Jack Davis
Jack 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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Inside My Mother
In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Author:
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Published year:
2015
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A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
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Year:
Secondary
Author:
Jazz Money
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2021
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
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was born at Grenfell, New South Wales, in 1867. He was educated briefly at several schools, but was sometimes kept home by his father to help with his carpentry. At the age of nine Lawson experienced problems with his ears and suffered …
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Gwen Harwood
Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), one of the most celebrated voices in modern Australian poetry, was born in 1920 in Brisbane, where she trained as a pianist and organist. After her marriage in 1945 she moved to Hobart, where she lived until her death in …
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Guwayu — For All Times
– Jacob Morris, 'Ban Maganindadjyang (My Old People Done)'
Guwayu — For All Times is a …
Year:
Secondary, Year 10
Author:
Jeanine Leane
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Published year:
2020
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Gregg Dreise
Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-…
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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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Francis Charles Webb
Francis Charles Webb (1925–1973), poet, was born on 8 February 1925 at Rose Park, Adelaide, third of four children and only son of Claude Webb-Wagg, a professional musician from Sydney, and his English-born wife Hazel Leonie, daughter of Francis …
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