by Stories from the Archive | Jan 6, 2023 | Poetry
by Alice Guerin Crist (1876-1941) Guerin was a native of Clare, Ireland, and emigrated to Queensland with her family when two years old. The daughter of a teacher, she became a teacher herself, before marrying and settling on the land. A gifted poet, she was...
by Stories from the Archive | Dec 9, 2022 | Poetry
by Ettie E Bode nee Ayliffe (1836-1920) This poem appeared in a centenary anthology, Australian Poets: 1788-1888. Ours was the land, all ours, mine and my people’s: the tribes, To roam at will, to dwell, to hunt and to fish in, We were the lords of the soil, the...
by wadholloway | Oct 12, 2022 | Article, Guest Posts, Poetry
by Jonathan Shaw. [Harford] was an intellectual, an ex-Catholic, a factory worker, an activist, a free spirit, a lover, a tutor and a student: all of these fed her poetry.
by Stories from the Archive | Sep 2, 2022 | Poetry
by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop The following poem, written in the aftermath of the Myall Creek massacre, appeared in The Australian in 1838, and again in 1841, when it was prefaced by the note ” ‘Only one female and a child got away from us’ –...
