Australian Poetry

A feast of Australian poetry new and old.

Australian Poetry index

The Lure of the Limerick - Now look, everyone knows that limericks are rude, crude and 'orrible.  I can promise you that there are definitely some rude ones in this collection; so if you are easily offended, please don't go there.

Alphabetical by Poem Title

Affairies at the Bottom of the Garden  - Joan Vaughan Taylor
Biters Glenn Beaver
Bun yip and the Whistling KettleJohn Manifold
Christmas and New Year Acrostics - Joan Vaughan Taylor  
Clancy of the Overflow - Banjo Patterson
Daddys Poem - Unknown
Drought  - Flexmore Hudson
Drought Year  - Judith Wright
Drover’s Sweetheart Henry Lawson
Eureka! Australia’s golden opportunity. Greg Secomb
Faces in the Street - Henry Lawson
Fair Dinkum - Joan Vaughan Taylor
Fight at the Eureka Stockade - Henry Lawson
Freedom on the Wallaby - Henry Lawson
Gilhooley’s Estate - Banjo Patterson
Hammer-man - Norm Tootney
Harry Pearce - David Campbell
I turn the table on a fable - Joan Vaughan-Taylor
Lights of Cobb and Co - Henry Lawson
Man from Snowy River - Banjo Patterson

Mass Murder of Fleet Street - Joan Vaughan-Taylor
My Country - Dorothea Mackellar OBE
Our Forgotten Flag - Henry Lawson
Prayer Is Just a Moment - Jean Hibberd AOM
Racing to the top - Joan Vaughan-Taylor
Roaring Days - Henry Lawson
Shakespearian Sonnet - Joan Vaughan Taylor
Silent Shearer - Banjo Patterson
Sliprails and the Spur - Henry Lawson
The Soldier - Michelle Monk
Star of Australasia - Henry Lawson
Talking Hands - Jean Hibberd AOM
Theatre Restaurant  - Joan Vaughan-Taylor
Waltzing Matilda - A.B. (Banjo) Paterson
War-Torn - John McFarlane
Weather Prophet - Banjo Patterson

Plus

Australian Poetry - A brief history
Banjo Paterson
Dorothea Mackellar OBE
Henry Lawson
 

Alphabetical by Poet

Glenn Beaver
Biters

David Campbell
Harry Pearce

Jean Hibberd AOM
Prayer Is Just a Moment
Talking Hands

Flexmore Hudson
Drought

Henry Lawson
The Lights of Cobb and Co
Drover’s Sweetheart
Faces in the Street
Fight at the Eureka Stockade
Our Forgotten Flag
Sliprails and the Spur
Star of Australasia
Roaring Days
Freedom on the Wallaby

Dorothea Mackellar OBE
My Country

John McFarlane
War-Torn 

John Manifold
Bun yip and the Whistling Kettle

Michelle Monk
The Soldier

Banjo Patterson
Shearing at Castlereagh
A Dream of the Melbourne Cup
Road to Gundagai
Along the road to Gundagai
Clancy of the Overflow
Gilhooley’s Estate
Man from Snowy River
Silent Shearer
Weather Prophet
Waltzing Matilda

Greg Secomb

Eureka! Australia’s golden opportunity.

Norm Tootney
Hammerman

Unknown

Daddys Poem - Unknown

Joan Vaughan Taylor
Affairies at the Bottom of the Garden
Christmas and New Year Acrostics
Fair Dinkum
I turn the table on a fable
Mass Murder of Fleet Street
Racing to the top
Shakespearian Sonnet
Theatre Restaurant

Judith Wright
Drought Year

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