Contents

Introduction

George Fletcher Moore (b.1798 d.1886)

Western Australia For Me

‘A’ (n.d.)

Anonymous (n.d.)

Delta (n.d.)

The Song of the Ticket of Leave Man

Elizabeth Deborah Brockman (b.1833 d.1915)

On Receiving From England a Bunch of Dried Wild Flowers

Requiescat in Pace

John Boyle O’Reilly (b.1844 d.1890)

The Dukite Snake

Henry Ebenezer Clay (b.1844 d.1896)

from Two and Two

‘Humanitas’ (n.d.)

A Blackfellow’s Appeal

Henry Charles Prinsep (b.1844 d.1922)

Acaster (n.d.)

O’er a Native’s Grave

Alfred Chandler (‘Spinifex’) (b.1852 d.1941)

Lights Along the Mile

Coolgardie 1893

Mary Doyle (‘May Kidson’) (b.1858 d.1942)

Perth in Morning Light

John Philip Bourke (‘Bluebush’) (b.1860 d.1914)

Percy Henn (b.1865 d.1955)

A Soldier’s Funeral

Charles Wiltens Andrée Hayward (b.1866 d.1950)

Along the Road to Cue

‘C’ (n.d.)

The Tothersider and The Perthite

Edwin Greenslade Murphy (‘Dryblower’) (b.1866 d.1939)

The Lodes that Under-lie

The Rhymes that Our Hearts Can Read

Thomas H. Wilson (‘Crosscut’) (b.1867 d.1925)

A Man was Killed in the Mine Today

The Boulder Block

The Poverty Pot

Frederick Charles Vosper (b.1869 d.1901)

Lilian Wooster Greaves (b.1869 d.1956)

The Farmer’s Daughter

W.C. Thomas (b.1869 d.1957)

F.W. Ophel (b.1871 d.1912)

The Phantoms of the Dark

‘The Boulder Bard’ (‘Willy-Willy’) (n.d.)

Ode to West Australia

‘The Exile’ (n.d.)

Mingkarlajirri (d.late 1920s)

The Marble Bar Pool Spirit is Releasing a Flood

(Wurlanyalu Nganyjarranga Jurta Murru Marri)

Dorham Doolette (b.1872 d.1925)

The Ballade of Cottesloe Beach

Annie H. Mark (b.1875 d.1947)

When Morning-glory Trims a Fence

Miriny-Mirinymarra Jingkiri (d.1930s)

Koolinda in Harbour
(Kurlintanya)

At Wurruwangkanya Jawiri is Increasing the Cold
(Wurruwangkanya Jipal Pirnu Jawirilu)

Katharine Susannah Prichard (b.1883 d.1969)

The Earth Lover

Oscar Walters (b.1889 d.1948)

’17 And ’32

Old Tumbler (Yanmi aka Walaburu) (b.1890. d.1962)

Racecourse Wharlu (Water Snake)

Yintilypirna Kaalyamarra (d. early 1940s)

Rows and Rows of Rain Clouds

(Yirra, Kuji, Yirra, Karti Ngayirrmani)

The Coastline Looks Strange to Me From Out Here

(Ngurra Parta Ngayinyu Ngajapa Wangkurrungura Kapungurala)

Peter Hopegood (b.1891 d.1967)

On Ninety-Mile Beach

Wimia King (Wimiya) (b. c.1893 d.1979)

Tjanginara the Plane

Olive Pell (b.1903 d.2002)

My Patriarchal Table Nest

Paul Hasluck (b.1905 d.1993)

At the Aquarium

Jack Sorensen (b.1907 d.1949)

The Dead Don’t Care

Coppin Dale (Garargeman or Yinbal) (b. c.1908 d.1993)

Baaburgurt (Bulyen, George Elliot) (n.d.)

Exile’s Lament

Wirrkaru Jingkiri (d.1960s)

William Hart-Smith (b.1911 d.1990)

Cormorants, Trigg Island

Kenneth Mackenzie (b.1913 d.1955)

Joan Williams (‘Justina Williams’) (b.1914 d.2008)

No Coward Colour

Alec Choate (b.1915 d.2010)

Words for a Granddaughter

Jack Davis (b.1917 d.2000)

Mining Company’s Hymn

Wolfe Fairbridge (b.1918 d.1950)

Consecration of the House

Merv Lilley (b.1919 d.2016)

Dorothy Hewett (b.1923 d.2002)

The Valley of the Giants

In Midland Where the Trains Go By

Once I Rode with Clancy

Living Dangerously

Katakapu (b. c.1930)

A Stranger to this Country, I’m Following Them

(Pampanulu Jina Marna Ngurra Panalala)

Night Drive in a V-8 Buckboard

(Ngananyakarra Nganyjarra Nganil Ngarri)

Waparla Pananykarra (b. c.1930 d.1995)

It’s Standing Still After the Motor Has Been Started Up

(Ngurntirri Jipantangu Nguntuntu Karriyan)

Jirlparurrumarra Piraparrjirri

Our Poor Trees are Almost Submerged

Griffith Watkins (b.1930 d.1969)

Ee Tiang Hong (b.1933 d.1990)

Fay Zwicky (b.1933)

William Grono (b.1934)

Peter Jeffery (b.1935)

Pompeii in Australia

Randolph Stow (b.1935 d.2010)

The Land’s Meaning

Ruins of the City of Hay

Still Life with Amaryllis Belladonna

Glen Phillips (b.1936)

Fourteen Tankas for Salt-Lake Country

Gordon Mackay-Warna (n.d.)

Tableland Bushfire

Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) (b.1938)

Auntie Margaret

Images\Artytypes\Stereotypes

Mick Fazeldean (d.1990s)

Ian Templeman (b.1938 d.2015)

Peter Bibby (b.1940)

Andrew Taylor (b.1940)

Dick Alderson (b.1941)

Alan Alexander (b.1941)

Limestone at Margaret River

Lee Knowles (b.1941)

Opportunity Shop

from Batavia Islands

Nicholas Hasluck (b.1942)

Brian Dibble (b.1943)

A Poet Remembers the Farm

Andrew Burke (b.1944)

The Present Depression

The Old Tambourine

Caroline Caddy (b.1944)

Michael Youlin Birch (b.1944 d.1968)

2516349, Jones, Private W.

Hal Colebatch (b.1945)

The Romantic Poet Goes On a Little Journey

Mary Champion (b.1947)

Jan Teagle Kapetas (b.1947)

Slaughtering the Lamb

Alf Taylor (b.1947)

Moorditj Yorgah

Marion May Campbell (b.1948)

Jimmy Chi (b.1948)

Dennis Haskell (b.1948)

The Basis of All Knowledge

No-one Ever Found You

Beate Josephi (b.1948)

In Praise of a Second Language

Sunil Govinnage (b.1950)

I Don’t Write Poems in Sinhala Anymore

Philip Salom (b.1950)

Seeing Gallipoli From the Sky

Barbecue of the Primitives

We Called it The Engine

Annamaria Weldon (b.1950)

Kristy Jones (b. c.1950)

The Past Still Lives

Sally Morgan (b.1951)

Zan Ross (b.1951)

Absolute Daily Disposable

Wendy Jenkins (b.1952)

The Silence of Mussels

Dolphin Sightings

Rod Moran (b.1952)

A Memoir of Birds

My Daughter Reading

David Brooks (b.1953)

The Pines, Cottesloe

Philip Collier (b.1953)

Philip Mead (b.1953)

There’s Small Grass Appearing on the Hill-side

Robert Walker (b.1953 d.1984)

Solitary Confinement

Andrew Lansdown (b.1954)

Between Glances

Shane McCauley (b.1954)

The Dissolution of a Fox

The Cosmonauts Smell Flowers

Graeme Dixon (b.1955 d.2010)

Holocaust Island

Liana Joy Christensen (b.1955)

Barbara Temperton (b.1955)

Pat Torres (b.1956)

Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, The Rain Bird

Kim Scott (b.1957)

Mar Bucknell (b.1957)

We Have Tried to Make Marks on the Glass

Roland Leach (b.1957)

Seven Miles to School

Marcella Polain (b.1958)

Zero Point Four

Paul Hetherington (b.1958)

Meckering Earthquake

Michael Heald (b.1959)

Maree Dawes (b.1960)

Frieda Hughes (b.1960)

Kate Lilley (b.1960)

South Perth Poems

Graham Kershaw (b.1961)

The Heywood Spire

Afeif Ismail (b.1962)

The Empire of My Grandmother

David McComb (b.1962 d.1999)

Behind the Garages of this Country

Charmaine Papertalk-Green (b.1962)

Don’t Want Me to Talk

A White Australia Mindset

Strong Wajarri Man

Blinding Loyalty

Sarah French (b.1963)

Kevin Gillam (b.1963)

the furniture of thought

John Kinsella (b.1963)

Playing Cricket at Wheatlands

Nandi Chinna (b.1964)

Mags Webster (b.1964)

Nights in Suburbia

Morgan Yasbincek (b.1964)

with my sister at the funeral parlor

Tracy Ryan (b.1964)

Jackson (b.1965)

suck faint amity

The Antipoet (Allan Boyd) (b.1966)

fly in fly out fly in fly out

Lucy Dougan (b.1966)

Mannequin Brides

David McCooey (b.1967)

Gabrielle Everall (b.1968)

Concord as you get off the Concorde

Amanda Joy (b.1970)

Snake Skin, Roe Swamp

John Mateer (b.1971)

The Frog-Memory

Contemplating a Migraine

Emma Rooksby (b.1972)

Miriam Wei Wei Lo (b.1973)

Don’t Call Me Grandma

Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River

Claire Potter (b.1975)

The Appeal of Cranes

Toby Davidson (b.1977)

Scott-Patrick Mitchell (b.1977)

Eight Letters To A Lover, II

Jeremy Balius (b.1979)

Shevaun Cooley (b.1979)

let down at birth into the dark well and overflowing with it

J.P. Quinton (b.1981)

Ode to C.Y. O’Connor

Caitlin Maling (b.1985)

Corey Wakeling (b.1985)

Kia Groom (b.1986)

Siobhan Hodge (b.1988)

References to Introduction

Biographical Notes

List of First Publications

Acknowledgements