Fay Zwicky
Born in Melbourne in 1933, Fay Zwicky began publishing poetry and short stories as an undergraduate at Melbourne University. She has been a concert pianist and was a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Western Australia. She …
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Father’s Day
Tony Birch has an eye for life lived at the margins and in Father’s Day he brings the streets of …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Author:
Tony Birch
Publisher:
Hunter Publishers
Published year:
2009
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Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler …
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Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the …
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Eileen Chong
Eileen Chong is an Australian poet of Chinese descent. She was born and raised in Singapore, and came to Australia as an adult migrant. She started writing poetry in 2010, and is the author of eight books published in Australia and the United States…
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Dropbear
An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian …
Year:
Secondary
Author:
Evelyn Araluen
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2021
Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy 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, …
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Do Not Go Around the Edges
Daisy's life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, …
Year:
Primary, Year 3, Year 4
Author:
Daisy Utemorrah
Illustrator:
Pat Torres
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Published year:
1990
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Disgrace
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-…
Author:
J. M. Coetzee
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Published year:
1999
David Ireland
David Ireland was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south-western Sydney. He lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time …
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