Bella Lavender, Mrs Pankhurst: sonnet
by Bella Lavender, née Guerin (1858-1953) Sonnet (suggested by the W.P.A. cable to the Albert Hall meeting on 10th April, 1913) by Bella Lavender, M.A. More free art thou in prison than the race Of sordid men who sell for gain or greed Our free-born sisters in their...
Alice Guerin, New Year’s Eve – December 1901
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...
Mrs J A Bode, Lubra
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...
Lesbia Harford
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.
