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Clubbing The Gunfire
''Clubbing of the Gunfire : 101 Australian War Poems'' is a anthology of poems by Australian poets edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Peter Pierce, published by Melbourne University Press in 1984. The collection contains 99 poems from 71 different poets. The poems here are grouped into four parts: Part One: Imperial Wars 1885-902 Part Two: The Great war 1914-1918 Part Three: The Second World war 1939-1945 Part Four: Asian Wars 1950-1972 Contents * A. B. Paterson ** " El Mahdi to the Australian Troops" * H. P. Ellis ** "His Letter : To the Committee, New South Wales Patriotic Fund" * Christopher Brennan ** "The Burden of Tyre : VI" * Randolph Bedford ** " The Rhyme of Rudyard K." * Henry Lawson ** " Who'll Wear the Beaten Colours?" * Breaker Morant ** "wikisource: Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday, Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday" * R. Stewart ** "The Sword of Genghis Khan" * Christopher Brennan ** "Irish to English : 26th April 1916" ** From : "A Chant of Doom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse. He was the founding director of the Australian Centre and, more recently, chair of the peak arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Murray (poet)
Leslie Allan Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings. Translations of Murray's poetry have been published in 11 languages: French, German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, and Dutch. Murray's poetry won many awards and he is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation". He was rated in 1997 by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.National Living Treasures – Current List, Deceased, Formerly Listed National Trust of Australia (NSW), 22 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thompson (Australian Poet)
John Thompson may refer to: Academics * J. A. Thompson (1913–2002), Australian biblical scholar * John D. Thompson (1917–1992), nurse and professor at the Yale School of Public Health * John G. Thompson (born 1932), American mathematician * John Thompson (business academic), professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Huddersfield * John Thompson (sociologist), professor at Cambridge * John Herd Thompson (1946–2019), Canadian historian * John N. Thompson (born 1951), American evolutionary biologist Business * John Thompson (American banker) (1802–1891), American banker * John Fairfield Thompson, chairman of Inco * John L. Thompson (1869–1930), Iowa journalist and businessman * John Philp Thompson Sr. (1925–2003), American businessman with 7-Eleven * John Thompson (Canadian banker) (born 1942), non-executive chairman of the board of Toronto-Dominion Bank * John W. Thompson (born 1949), chairman of the board of Microsoft * John Thompson (company), a comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Millett (poet)
John Antill Millett (3 February 1921 – 19 May 2019) was an Australian poet, reviewer and poetry editor. He was editor of ''Poetry Australia'' magazine from 1987 until its demise in 1992. Early years Millett was born in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra. His grandmother introduced him to adventure classics such as ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Ivanhoe'', ''The Last of the Mohicans'' and the poems of Walter Scott. Millett served in England during World War II as a wireless air gunner with the all-Australian RAAF No 10 Squadron, from which experience he wrote the popular ''Tail Arse Charlie'', also adapted for ABC Radio. After the war he worked in the Repatriation Department. He then went to study law at Sydney University graduating with LLB. His book ''Blue Dynamite'' was dramatised by Bradley R. Strahan (editor of ''Visions International'', where he had been regularly published) with the assistance of the Source theater group in Washington, D.C. where it was performed at several venu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hart-Smith
William Hart-Smith (23 November 1911 – 15 April 1990) was a New Zealand/Australian poet who was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His family moved to New Zealand in 1924. He had about "seven years of formal schooling" in England, Scotland and New Zealand before getting work at 15. His first job was as a radio mechanic. In 1936 he emigrated to Australia, working in commercial radio, and then the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He then did army service, returned to ABC, and resigned spending a year in the Northern Territory, becoming a freelance writer. Hart-Smith was connected with the Jindyworobak Movement and had some of his work, such as ''Columbus Goes West'' (1943), published by them. However he spent only a decade in Australia, returning to New Zealand in 1946. From 1948 to 1954 he taught in adult education. He spent several years in Perth from the late 1960s, associating with younger poets including Andrew Lansdown, Hal Colebatch and Lee Knowles. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Ballardie MacCallum
John Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (commonly known as Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, 11 December 1913 – 12 July 1999) was an Australian journalist, broadcaster and poet. Early life MacCallum was born in Point Piper, Sydney on 11 December 1913. His father was Mungo Lorenz MacCallum, a Rhodes Scholar, barrister and journalist, and son of Dorette and Mungo William MacCallum, Chancellor of the University of Sydney. He attended Sydney Grammar School and studied arts at the University of Sydney. Career MacCallum began as a cadet journalist with the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' during his second year at Sydney University, shortly before his father's death in 1934. In 1941 he joined the Army Education Service as the editor of ''SALT'', a journal written by and by Australian troops, with contributions from several well-known Australian writers and from MacCallum himself. ''SALT'' was popular throughout the armed forces and was valued also by many Australian officials and war correspondents. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Campbell (poet)
David Watt Ian Campbell (16 July 191529 July 1979) was an Australian poet who wrote over 15 volumes of prose and poetry. He was also a talented rugby union player who represented England in two tests. Life Campbell was born on 16 July 1915 at Ellerslie Station, near Adelong, New South Wales. He was the third child of Australian-born parents Alfred Campbell, a grazier and medical practitioner, and his wife Edith Madge, née Watt.Kramer (2006) In 1930, Campbell went to The King's School, Parramatta, and in 1935, with the support of the headmaster, he enrolled at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1937. His studies in English literature developed his interest in poetry. At Cambridge, he excelled at rugby union and as well as earning a Blue after playing in The Varsity Match, he was chosen for England. Playing at flanker he made his debut in the test match against Wales at Twickenham in 1937. He played a second test that year against Ireland. Camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Griffin (politician)
Sir Charles David Griffin CBE (8 July 1915 – 25 March 2004) was an Australian lawyer and businessman, and the Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1972 to 1973. He was a prisoner of war at Changi in Singapore during World War II, and a poet. Always known as David, Griffin was born in Leura in the Blue Mountains and was educated at Cranbrook. In 1941 he sailed for Malaya and was present in Singapore at its fall to the Japanese in 1942. A prisoner of war in Changi for three years, he was released in 1945. He returned to the legal profession in Sydney. He was elected to the council of the City of Sydney in 1962 representing the Civic Reform Association, before becoming Lord Mayor in 1972. Griffin had been involved in radio and the theatre, and in 2002 published a book of poems written in Changi, including ''The Happiness Box''. While in Changi, he collected many poems written by Australian and British soldiers there, and kept them in a cardboard box for over 45 years before releasing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tomb Of Lt
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Manifold
John Streeter Manifold (21 April 1915 – 19 April 1985) was an Australian poet and critic. He was born in Melbourne, into a well known Camperdown family. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, and read modern languages at Jesus College, Cambridge. While in Cambridge he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was involved in an attempt to create a successor (''Poetry and the People'') to ''Left Review'', when the latter folded in 1938. He then worked in Germany, in publishing. During World War II, he served in intelligence in the British Army, in the Middle East, Africa and France. He was a published war poet; ''Trident'', with Hubert Nicholson and David Martin, was published by Randall Swingler's Fore Publications in 1944. In 1949, he returned to Australia, settling in Brisbane. He was a founder in 1950 of the Realist Writers Group. He then worked and published mostly on Australian songs and music, reciting ballads at arts festivals. In the 1984 Australia Day Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Mackenzie (author)
Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie (25 September 1913 – 19 January 1955) was an Australian poet and novelist. His first and best-known novel, '' The Young Desire It'' (1937), was published under the pen name Seaforth Mackenzie. Life Mackenzie was born in South Perth. He grew up in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and attended Guildford Grammar School. His experiences at Guildford in part inspired his novel of 1937 ''The Young Desire It''. His novel ''Dead Men Rising'' was about the Cowra breakout of which he had first hand experience, having been stationed there at the time of the event. He married Kate Bartlett (nee Loveday), in 1935. Their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1936, and son Hugh was born in 1938. His life in Sydney included involvement with the world of Norman Lindsay and Hugh McCrae and archival records show significant influence from them. He received a number of literary grants and awards, and left a number of works which have been since edited and publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Dutton
Geoffrey 'Geppie' Piers Henry Dutton Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (2 August 192217 September 1998) was an Australian author and historian. Early life and education Dutton was born at Anlaby Station near Kapunda, South Australia on 2 August 1922. His grandfather was Henry Dutton (pastoralist), Henry Dutton, the "Squire of Anlaby"; his parents were adventurer Henry Hampden Dutton and talented socialite Emily Dutton. Dutton grew up in four houses owned by his parents: Anlaby Station near Kapunda; Kalymna (or Kalimna) House, on the edge of the east parklands, Adelaide; Ooraminna, on the foreshore at Victor Harbor, South Australia, Victor Harbor; and Rocky Point, a limestone house overlooking Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island. He was taught French as a young boy. At age eight, he was sent to Wykeham Preparatory School near Belair, South Australia, Belair, a suburb of Adelaide. After being tutored at home from around 1934 to 1939, he went to Geelong Grammar School, in Geelong, V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
