Contains authors and literatures in australia

1. Literature of
Australia

2. •Written or literary work
produced by people of
Australia
•Not so famous in field of
literature

3. Themes
• Aboriginality
• Mateship
• Egalitarianism
• Democracy
• National Identity
• Migration

4. Famous Authors

5. Banjo Paterson
• Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson
• Australian Bush Poet, Journalist
and Author
• Created most popular Australian
bush poems

6. Notable Poems
“Clancy of The Overflow”
‘’The Man From Snowy River”
“Waltzing Matilda”
“Prelude”
“Conroy’s Gap”

7. Christopher Brennan
• Influenced Australian
writers
• Christopher Brennan Award
was created (lifetime
achievement in poetry)

8. Notable Poems
• Because She Would Ask Me Why I loved Her
• Autumn
• Epiloue 1908
• Fire in the Heavens
• I Am Shut Out Of Mine Own Heart
• Spring Breezes
• Sweet Silence After Bells

9. Adam Lindsay Gordon
• Australian poet
• Jockey
• Politician
• Once referred as National Poet Of
Australia
• Only Australian with a monument in
poets corner of Westminster Abbey in
England

10. Notable Poems
• A Dedication
• An Exile’s Farewell
• A Song of Autumn
• Delilah
• Doubtful Dreams

11. C.J Dennis
• Clarence Michael James
Dennis
• Wrote Australian
vernacular (“The
Sentimental Bloke”)

12. Notable Poems
• The Lovers
• An Old Master
• “Paw”
• The Builders
• Wheat
• “Got-a-Fag”
• The Chase of Ages

13. Dorothea Mackellar
• Isobel Marion Dorothea
Mackellar
• Australian poet and Fiction
writter
• Her poem “My Country” Is best
known Australian poem because
of its 2nd stanza

14. Notable Poems
• My country
• Fire This Life That We Call Our Own
• Dawn at The Dawning of The Day
• Colour
• The Colours of Light
• Burning Off
• In a Southern Garden

15. Dame Mary Gilmor
• Teacher and a writer
• Editor of woman’s pages of
The Australian Worker
Newspaper for 23 yrs.

16. Notable Poems
• Eve-Song
• Marri’d
• Nationality
• No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest
• O Singer in Brown
• Old Botan Bay

17. A.D Hope
• Alec Derwent Hope
• Controversial figure erudite
mind and wicked wit to
devastating effect as a critic

18. Notable Poems
• On An Early Photograph of My
Mother
• Patch And Mend
• Poor Charley’s Dream
• Croesus and Lais
• Pervigilium Veneris
• Apollo and Daphne

19. Judith Wright
• Prolific Australian poet,critic,short story
writer
• Published more than 50 books
• Environmentalist, Social Activist
Campaigning aboriginal land rights
• Believed that the poet should be
concerned with national ang social
problems

20. Notable Poems
• The Old Prison
• Request To a Year
• Five Senses
• Legend
• Magpies
• The Company of Lovers
• Metho Drinker

21. Gwen Harwood
• Australian poet librettist
• One of the Australia’s finest poets
• 420 works
• (386 poems
• 13 Librettos)
• Mother of the Author John
Harwood

22. Notable Poems
• In The Park
• Last Meeting
• Anniversary
• Barn Owl
• The Glass Jar
• The Wound

23. Les Murray
• Australia poet, Anthologist and
critic
• Regarded as one of the leading
poets of his generation

24. Notable Poems
• An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
• Noonday Axeman
• Pigs
• Poetry and Religion
• On Home Beaches
• The Aboriginal Cricketer