Table of contents

General Introduction Nicholas Jose

Aboriginal Literature Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
Literature to 1900 Elizabeth Webby
Literature 1900–1950 Nicole Moore
Fiction and Drama from 1950 Kerryn Goldsworthy
Poetry and Non-fiction from 1950 David McCooey

GEORGE WORGAN (1757–1838)
From Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon

WATKIN TENCH (1758–1833)
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

BENNELONG (c. 1764–1813)
Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney’s Steward

ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (1766–1850)
Letter to Brigid Kingdon

MATTHEW FLINDERS (1774–1814)
From A Voyage to Terra Australis

BARRON FIELD (1786–1846)
The Kangaroo

ANONYMOUS
The Native’s Lament

HENRY SAVERY (1791–1842)
From The Hermit in Van Diemen’s Land

ANONYMOUS
A Swan River Eclogue

ANONYMOUS
Jim Jones at Botany Bay

CHARLES STURT (1795–1869)
From Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia

ELIZA DUNLOP (1796–1880)
The Aboriginal Mother (from Myall’s Creek)

FRANK THE POET (c. 1810–c. 1861)
A Convict’s Tour to Hell

ANONYMOUS
Moreton Bay

ELIZA BROWN (1810–1896)
Letter to Her Father

LOUISA ANNE MEREDITH (1812–1895)
From Notes and Sketches of New South Wales

CHARLES HARPUR (1813–1868)
The Beautiful Squatter
A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest
A Confession
The Consummation

MARY ANN ARTHUR (c. 1819–1871)
Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen’s Land

WALTER GEORGE ARTHUR (c. 1820–1861)
Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen’s Land

ELLEN CLACY (c. 1820–?)
From A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852–1853

CAROLINE CARLETON (c. 1820–1874)
The Song of Australia

THOMAS BRUNE (c. 1823–1841)
The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle
The Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle
Weekly Chronicle

WILLIAM BARAK (c. 1824–1903)
Letter to the Editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines

CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE (1825–1910)
From Clara Morison

ROLF BOLDREWOOD (1826–1915)
From Robbery Under Arms

D.H. DENIEHY (1828–1865)
Speech on Mr Wentworth’s Constitutional Bill

ANONYMOUS
The Eumerella Shore

ANONYMOUS
The Wild Colonial Boy

ADAM LINDSAY GORDON (1833–1870)
The Sick Stockrider

WAIF WANDER (c. 1833–c. 1910)
The Spider and the Fly

LOUISA ATKINSON (1834–1872)
Cabbage-Tree Hollow, and the Valley of the Grose

GEORGE CHANSON (1835–1898)
Stringy Bark and Green Hide

ERNEST GILES (1835–1897)
From Australia Twice Traversed

HENRY KENDALL (1839–1882)
Bell-birds
The Late Mr A.L. Gordon: In Memoriam

W.H.L. RANKEN (1839–1902)
From The Dominion of Australia

A.J. BOYD (1842–1928)
The Shepherd

JOSEPH FURPHY (1843–1912)
From Such is Life

ADA CAMBRIDGE (1844–1926)
Seeking
An Answer
The Wind of Destiny

MARCUS CLARKE (1846–1881)
From His Natural Life
Nasturtium Villas
Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon’s Sea Spray and Smoke Drift

MARY HANNAY FOOTT (1846–1918)
Where the Pelican Builds

LOUISA LAWSON (1848–1920)
That Nonsensical Idea

TASMA (1848–1897)
Monsieur Caloche

BESSIE CAMERON (c. 1851–1895)
Letter to the Editor

E.J. BANFIELD (1852–1923)
From The Confessions of a Beachcomber

TAAM SZE PUI (c. 1853–1926)
From My Life and Work

AUDREY TENNYSON (1854–1916)
Letter to Her Mother

NED KELLY (1855–1880)
The Jerilderie Letter

PRICE WARUNG (1855–1911)
How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast

BARBARA BAYNTON (1857–1929)
The Chosen Vessel

VICTOR DALEY (c. 1858–1905)
Correggio Jones

KITTY BRANGY (c. 1859–1918)
Letter to Edith Brangy

ANNIE RICH (c. 1859–1937)
Letter to Solicitor, for Captain Page, Secretary of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines

WILLIAM COOPER (c. 1861–1941)
Petition to the King

BANJO PATERSON (1864–1941)
The Man from Snowy River
Waltzing Matilda
Mulga Bill’s Bicycle

A.G. STEPHENS (1865–1933)
A Poet’s Mother

MARY GILMORE (1865–1962)
Eve-Song
The Measure
Old Botany Bay
Australia
Fourteen Men

BARCROFT BOAKE (1866–1892)
Where the Dead Men Lie

BERNARD O’DOWD (1866–1953)
Australia

HENRY LAWSON (1867–1922)
Faces in the Street
The Drover’s Wife
The Union Buries Its Dead
In a Dry Season

STEELE RUDD (1868–1935)
From On Our Selection!

MARY E. FULLERTON (1868–1946)
War Time

ETHEL TURNER (1870–1958)
From Seven Little Australians

CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN (1870–1932)
‘She is the night: all horror is of her’
‘Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills’
‘O desolate eves along the way, how oft’
‘The land I came thro’ last was dumb with night’

HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON (1870–1946)
From The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

LOUIS STONE (1871–1935)
From Jonah

JOHN LE GAY BRERETON (1871–1933)
ANZAC
Transports

MAGGIE MOBOURNE (c. 1872–1917)
Petition to D.N. McLeod, Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines

CONSTANCE CAMPBELL PETRIE (1872–1926)
From Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland

JOHN SHAW NEILSON (1872–1942)
Honeythirst
The Girl With the Black Hair
The Orange Tree
The Poor, Poor Country

DAVID UNAIPON (1872–1967)
Aborigines, Their Traditions and Customs: Where Did They Come From?
Hungarrda
Narrinyeri Saying
The Voice of the Great Spirit

ANNA MORGAN (1874–1935)
Under the Black Flag

FRED BIGGS (c. 1875–1961) and ROLAND ROBINSON (1912–1992)
The Star-Tribes

C.J. DENNIS (1876–1938)
From The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

LOUIS ESSON (1878–1943)
From The Time is Not Yet Ripe

P.J. HARTIGAN (1878–1952)
Said Hanrahan

MILES FRANKLIN (1879–1954)
From My Brilliant Career
Letter to Katharine Susannah Prichard

C.E.W. BEAN (1879–1968)
From On the Wool Track

NORMAN LINDSAY (1879–1969)
From The Magic Pudding

FREDERIC MANNING (1882–1935)
From The Middle Parts of Fortune

WILLIAM FERGUSON (1882–1950) and JOHN PATTEN (1905–1957)
Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!

ANNA WICKHAM (1883–1947)
The Sick Assailant

KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD (1883–1969)
Marlene
Letter to Miles Franklin

DOROTHEA MACKELLAR (1885–1968)
My Country

NETTIE PALMER (1885–1964)
From Fourteen Years

LESBIA HARFORD (1891–1927)
In the Public Library
‘My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies’
Machinist’s Song
Grotesque

MARTIN BOYD (1893–1972)
From Outbreak of Love

JEAN DEVANNY (1894–1962)
From Sugar Heaven

ROBERT MENZIES (1894–1978)
The Forgotten People

A.B. FACEY (1894–1982)
From A Fortunate Life

MARJORIE BARNARD (1897–1987)
Australian Literature
The Persimmon Tree

M. BARNARD ELDERSHAW (1897–1987 Barnard; 1897–1956 Eldershaw)
From Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

NORMAN HARRIS (c. 1898–1968)
Letter to Jim Bassett

RICKETTY KATE (1898–1971)
Via the Bridge

A.A. PHILLIPS (1900–1985)
The Cultural Cringe

KENNETH SLESSOR (1901–1971)
Up in Mabel’s Room
Backless Betty from Bondi
Five Bells
Last Trams
South Country
Beach Burial

XAVIER HERBERT (1901–1984)
From Capricornia

ELEANOR DARK (1901–1985)
From The Timeless Land

PEARL GIBBS (1901–1983)
Radio Broadcast

J.M. HARCOURT (1902–1971)
From Upsurge

CHRISTINA STEAD (1902–1983)
From For Love Alone
Uncle Morgan at the Nats

ALAN MARSHALL (1902–1984)
The Grey Kangaroo

DYMPHNA CUSACK (1902–1981) and FLORENCE JAMES (1902–1993)
From Come in Spinner

ROBERT D. FITZGERALD (1902–1987)
The Wind at Your Door

LENNIE LOWER (1903–1947)
Where the Cooler Bars Grow

EVE LANGLEY (1904–1974)
Native-born
From The Pea Pickers

JOHN MORRISON (1904–1998)
The Nightshift

DOUG NICHOLLS (1906–1988)
Letter to the Editor

A.D. HOPE (1907–2000)
Australia
Ascent into Hell
The Death of the Bird
Crossing the Frontier
Inscription for a War
The Mayan Books

JUDAH WATEN (1911–1985)
From Alien Son

HAL PORTER (1911–1984)
From The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony

KYLIE TENNANT (1912–1988)
From Ride on Stranger

PATRICK WHITE (1912–1990)
From Voss
The Prodigal Son
Miss Slattery and Her Demon Lover

GEORGE JOHNSTON (1912–1970)
From My Brother Jack

JOE TIMBERY (1912–1978)
The Boomerang Racket

DOUGLAS STEWART (1913–1985)
The Green Centipede
The Fierce Country
Marree
Afghan
Place Names
Sombrero

BILL NEIDJIE (c. 1913–2002)
Ahh … Bush-Honey There!

DONALD FRIEND (1914–1989)
From The Diaries of Donald Friend

J.S. MANIFOLD (1915–1985)
The Tomb of Lieutenant John Learmonth, A.I.F.

JUDITH WRIGHT (1915–2000)
South of My Days
The Surfer
Nigger’s Leap, New England
Woman to Man
Eroded Hills
The Two Fires
At Cooloolah
Eve to Her Daughters
Memory
Skins

DAVID CAMPBELL (1915–1979)
Men in Green
Winter
Kelly Country
The Australian Dream

MANNING CLARK (1915–1991)
From A History of Australia

YIRRKALA PEOPLE
Yirrkala Bark Petition

NARRITJIN MAYMURU (c. 1916–1981)
Letter to Mr H.E. Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, NT

JESSICA ANDERSON (b. 1916)
From Tirra Lirra by the River

JAMES McAULEY (1917–1976)
Envoi
Terra Australis
Dialogue
St John’s Park, New Town
Credo
Father, Mother, Son

JACK DAVIS (1917–2000)
The First-born
The Black Tracker
Warru
Integration
Walker

ERN MALLEY
Dürer: Innsbruck, 1495
Night Piece
Petit Testament

VINCENT LINGIARI (1919–1988)
Gurindji Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General

OLGA MASTERS (1919–1986)
The Christmas Parcel

IDA WEST (1919–2003)
From Pride Against Prejudice

ROSEMARY DOBSON (b. 1920)
Child With a Cockatoo
Over the Frontier
The Almond-tree in the King James Version
Who?
Reading Aloud

COLIN THIELE (1920–2006)
From The Sun on the Stubble

OODGEROO NOONUCCAL (1920–1993)
Speech Launching the Petition of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement
Aboriginal Charter of Rights
The Dispossessed
We Are Going
Assimilation—No!
Integration—Yes!
The Dawn is at Hand
No More Boomerang
Ballad of the Totems

ROBIN DALTON (b. 1920)
From Aunts Up the Cross

GWEN HARWOOD (1920–1995)
Father and Child (part I)
Matinee
Carnal Knowledge II
Andante
Dialogue
Mother Who Gave Me Life
Bone Scan
The Sick Philosopher
Letter to Tony Riddell

RAY LAWLER (b. 1921)
From Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

DONALD HORNE (1921–2005)
From The Education of Young Donald

RITA HUGGINS (1921–1996) and JACKIE HUGGINS (b. 1956)
From Auntie Rita

JACOB G. ROSENBERG (1922–2008)
From East of Time

DOROTHY HEWETT (1923–2002)
Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod
Grave Fairytale
Living Dangerously
From The Man from Mukinupin
From Wild Card

CHARMIAN CLIFT (1923–1969)
Images in Aspic

ERIC ROLLS (1923–2007)
From A Million Wild Acres

ELIZABETH JOLLEY (1923–2007)
Night Runner

MONICA CLARE (1924–1973)
From Karobran

FRANCIS WEBB (1925–1973)
The Explorer’s Wife
End of the Picnic
Eyre All Alone (part I)
Ward Two (parts I and II)

VINCENT BUCKLEY (1925–1988)
Golden Builders (part I)

THEA ASTLEY (1925–2004)
From It’s Raining in Mango

JESSIE LENNON (c. 1925–2000)
From And I Always Been Moving!

ALAN SEYMOUR (b. 1927)
From The One Day of the Year

BRUCE BEAVER (1928–2004)
Letters to Live Poets (parts I and VI)

PETER PORTER (b. 1929)
Sydney Cove, 1788
On This Day I Complete My Fortieth Year
Sex and the Over Forties
An Exequy
What I Have Written I Have Written

R.A. SIMPSON (1929–2002)
Evening
Parallels

K.S. INGLIS (b. 1929)
From Sacred Places

GEOFFREY BLAINEY (b. 1930)
From The Rush that Never Ended

MENA ABDULLAH (b. 1930) and RAY MATHEW (1929–2002)
The Dragon of Kashmir

BRUCE DAWE (b. 1930)
A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love
Homecoming
And a Good Friday Was Had by All

FRANK MALKORDA (c. 1930–1993)
Ngalalak/White Cockatoo
Muralkarra/Crow

SHIRLEY HAZZARD (b. 1931)
From People in Glass Houses

CHRISTOPHER KOCH (b. 1932)
From The Year of Living Dangerously

VIVIAN SMITH (b. 1933)
Balmoral Summer
Tasmania
Sydney Perhaps

KEVIN GILBERT (1933–1993)
People Are Legends
From The Cherry Pickers
Redfern
Me and Jackomari Talkin’ About Land Rights
Tree
Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra
Song of Dreamtime

FAY ZWICKY (b. 1933)
Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989
Makassar, 1956

JENNIFER STRAUSS (b. 1933)
Discourse in Eden
A Mother’s Day Letter: Not for Posting

BARRY HUMPHRIES (b. 1934)
Maroan
Edna’s Hymn
Letter to Richard Allen
From More Please

CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE (b. 1934)
The Swing
Introspection
God
An Elegy
Puck Disembarks
New Year

DAVID MALOUF (b. 1934)
The Year of the Foxes
Poem
A First Place
The Only Speaker of His Tongue
7 Last Words of the Emperor Hadrian

RUBY LANGFORD GINIBI (b. 1934)
From Don’t Take Your Love to Town

JILL KER CONWAY (b. 1934)
From The Road from Coorain

BOB RANDALL (b. 1934)
Brown Skin Baby

INGA CLENDINNEN (b. 1934)
From Tiger’s Eye

RANDOLPH STOW (b. 1935)
From The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

THOMAS KENEALLY (b. 1935)
From Bring Larks and Heroes
From Schindler’s Ark

RODNEY HALL (b. 1935)
From Just Relations
Missing Person

THOMAS SHAPCOTT (b. 1935)
The City of Home
For Judith Wright

CHARLES PERKINS (1936–2000)
Letter to the Editor

ERIC WILLMOT (b. 1936)
From Pemulwuy

BURNUM BURNUM (1936–1997)
The Burnum Burnum Declaration

ALEX MILLER (b. 1936)
From The Ancestor Game

HERB WHARTON (b. 1936)
Boat People—Big Trial

DORIS PILKINGTON (b. 1937)
From Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

LES MURRAY (b. 1938)
Rainwater Tank
The Quality of Sprawl
Second Essay on Interest: The Emu
Bats’ Ultrasound
Hearing Impairment
Poetry and Religion
The Tin Wash Dish
The Last Hellos
The Instrument
The Cool Green

FRANK MOORHOUSE (b. 1938)
From Forty-Seventeen

MUDROOROO (b. 1938)
From Master of the Ghost Dreaming

ROBERT HUGHES (b. 1938)
From Culture of Complaint

MARY ROSE LIVERANI (b. 1939)
From The Winter Sparrows

CLIVE JAMES (b. 1939)
From Unreliable Memoirs

GERALD MURNANE (b. 1939)
Why I Write What I Write

BARBARA HANRAHAN (1939–1991)
Tottie Tippett

GERMAINE GREER (b. 1939)
From Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

PETER STEELE (b. 1939)
Ape

J.S. HARRY (b. 1939)
Journeys West of ‘War’

GEOFF PAGE (b. 1940)
Smalltown Memorials

ANDREW TAYLOR (b. 1940)
The Dead Father

JIMMY PIKE (c. 1940–2002)
From Yinti

J.M. COETZEE (b. 1940)
From Elizabeth Costello

GEOFFREY LEHMANN (b. 1940)
Thirteen Long-Playing Haiku

MURRAY BAIL (b. 1941)
Life of the Party

JENNIFER RANKIN (1941–1979)
Cliffs
Slow Wing
First Poem—Metamorphosis

BEVERLEY FARMER (b. 1941)
Ismini

ROGER McDONALD (b. 1941)
From Shearers’ Motel

GERRY BOSTOCK (b. 1942)
From Here Comes the Nigger

HELEN GARNER (b. 1942)
From The Children’s Bach
The Life of Art
At the Morgue

DAVID WILLIAMSON (b. 1942)
From Emerald City

JOHN A. NEWFONG (1943–1999)
To Number One Fella Big White Boss

ROBERT ADAMSON (b. 1943)
Sonnets to be Written from Prison
My Granny
Songs for Juno
The Greenshank
Thinking of Eurydice at Midnight

PETER CAREY (b. 1943)
American Dreams
From True History of the Kelly Gang

BARRY ANDREWS (1943–1987)
Lap, Phar

JOHN TRANTER (b. 1943)
At the Laundromat
Ode to Col Joye
Country Veranda
Having Completed My Fortieth Year
After Hölderlin

BARRY HILL (b. 1943)
Lizards

PHILIP McLAREN (b. 1943)
From Sweet Water … Stolen Land

WILLIAM YANG (b. 1943)
From Sadness

ROBERTA SYKES (b. c. 1943)
From Snake Cradle

ROBERT DREWE (b. 1943)
From The Shark Net

GERARD WINDSOR (b. 1944)
Addendum to the First Fleet Journals

ROBERT DESSAIX (b. 1944)
From A Mother’s Disgrace

PAUL KEATING (b. 1944)
The Ghost of the Swagman

DAVID FOSTER (b. 1944)
From The Glade Within the Grove

PETER SKRZYNECKI (b. 1945)
Migrant Hostel

ANNE SUMMERS (b. 1945)
From Damned Whores and God’s Police

ROBERT GRAY (b. 1945)
Diptych

MICHAEL LEUNIG (b. 1945)
One of the Preambles
The Life Cycle of the Supermarket Trolley
How Democracy Actually Works

KEV CARMODY (b. 1946)
From Little Things Big Things Grow

JOHN MUK MUK BURKE (b. 1946)
A Poem for Gran

DRUSILLA MODJESKA (b. 1946)
From Stravinsky’s Lunch

MARTIN JOHNSTON (1947–1990)
The Sea-Cucumber
‘The typewriter, considered as a bee-trap’

BRUCE PASCOE (b. 1947)
The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher

ERROL WEST (1947–2001)
‘Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here?’

DAVID MARR (b. 1947)
From Patrick White

AMANDA LOHREY (b. 1947)
From Camille’s Bread

ALF TAYLOR (b. 1947)
The Wool Pickers

MICHAEL DRANSFIELD (1948–1973)
Pas de Deux for Lovers
Fix
Flying

JOHN SCOTT (b. 1948)
Pride of Erin
Plato’s Dog

GALARRWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1948)
Barunga Statement

JOHN CLARKE (b. 1948)
Muse of Bauxite
A Child’s Christmas in Warrnambool

PATRICK DODSON (b. 1948)
Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions

PAM BROWN (b. 1948)
At the Wall

ROSIE SCOTT (b. 1948)
The Value of Writers

ALAN WEARNE (b. 1948)
From The Lovemakers
Come on Aussie

ALAN GOULD (b. 1949)
Rain Governs the Small Hours

LAURIE DUGGAN (b. 1949)
From The Ash Range
From The Epigrams of Martial
Drinking Socially
Air Time

GLENYSE WARD (b. 1949)
From Wandering Girl

KEN BOLTON (b. 1949)
Paris to Pam Brown

JENNIFER MARTINIELLO (b. 1949)
Uluru by Champagne
Emily Kngwarreye

YAHIA AL-SAMAWY (b. 1949)
Your Voice is My Flute

JENNIFER MAIDEN (b. 1949)
Dracula on the Monaro
Old Europe Stared at Her Breakfast

KEVIN BROPHY (b. 1949)
Box

JOHN FORBES (1950–1998)
To the Bobbydazzlers
Stalin’s Holidays
Ode/‘Goodbye Memory’
Speed, a Pastoral
Love Poem
Anzac Day

KATE GRENVILLE (b. 1950)
From Lilian’s Story

KENNY LAUGHTON (b. 1950)
The Tunnel Rats of Phuoc Tuy

PHILIP SALOM (b. 1950)
Seeing Gallipoli from the Sky

LOUIS NOWRA (b. 1950)
From Radiance

MICK DODSON (b. 1950)
We All Bear the Cost if Apology is Not Paid

ALEXIS WRIGHT (b. 1950)
From Plains of Promise
From Carpentaria

BRIAN CASTRO (b. 1950)
From Shanghai Dancing

ANIA WALWICZ (b. 1951)
Australia
Little Red Riding Hood

SALLY MORGAN (b. 1951)
From My Place

MARCIA LANGTON (b. 1951)
From ‘Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television ...’

STEPHEN EDGAR (b. 1951)
All Will be Revealed
Sun Pictorial

JILL JONES (b. 1951)
The Night Before Your Return

PETER GOLDSWORTHY (b. 1951)
The Kiss
Australia

SAM WATSON (b. 1952)
From The Kadaitcha Sung

KEVIN HART (b. 1954)
Facing the Pacific at Night
The Calm

DOROTHY PORTER (1954–2008)
From The Monkey’s Mask

MICHAEL GOW (b. 1955)
From Away

GRAEME DIXON (b. 1955)
Six Feet of Land Rights
Holocaust Island

ARCHIE ROACH (b. 1955)
Took the Children Away

GAIL JONES (b. 1955)
Modernity

PETER ROSE (b. 1955)
Donatello in Wangaratta
From Rose Boys

OUYANG YU (b. 1955)
The Ungrateful Immigrant
Listening to the Chinese Woman Philosopher

GIG RYAN (b. 1956)
If I Had a Gun
Hay Fever
Critique of Pure Reason

PAT TORRES (b. 1956)
Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, The Rain Bird
Wangkaja, The Mangrove Crab

MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1956)
Treaty

JUDITH BEVERIDGE (b. 1956)
Yachts
How to Love Bats
The Saffron Picker

KERRY REED-GILBERT (b. 1956)
Let’s Get Physical

HANNIE RAYSON (b. 1957)
From Hotel Sorrento

NICK CAVE (b. 1957)
Opium Tea

KIM SCOTT (b. 1957)
From Benang

MICHELLE DE KRETSER (b. 1957)
From The Hamilton Case

ANTHONY LAWRENCE (b. 1957)
The Language of Bleak Averages
A Profile of the Dead

LIONEL FOGARTY (b. 1958)
Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive
Decorative Rasp, Weaved Roots
Ecology
For I Come—Death in Custody
Kath Walker
‘Dulpai—Ila Ngari Kim Mo-Man’
Alcheringa

SARAH DAY (b. 1958)
Quickening
Take Heart

PHILIP HODGINS (1959–1995)
A Palinode
Shooting the Dogs
Strathbogie Ranges 1965
Cytotoxic Rigor

VENERO ARMANNO (b. 1959)
From The Volcano

TIM WINTON (b. 1960)
My Father’s Axe

ADAM AITKEN (b. 1960)
Post-colonial
Changi

LISA BELLEAR (1961–2006)
Women’s Liberation
Woman of the Dreaming
Urbanised Reebocks
Taxi

RICHARD FLANAGAN (b. 1961)
From The Sound of One Hand Clapping

JORDIE ALBISTON (b. 1961)
The Fall

EMMA LEW (b. 1962)
Marshes
Nettle Song

LUKE DAVIES (b. 1962)
Totem Poem (lines 1–245)

CRAIG SHERBORNE (b. 1962)
Ash Saturday

RICHARD FRANKLAND (b. 1963)
Two World One

JOHN KINSELLA (b. 1963)
The Vital Waters
Map: Land Subjected to Inundation

TRACY RYAN (b. 1964)
Wungong
Eclipse, Kenwick, 1974

CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS (b. 1965)
From Dead Europe

ANDREW McGAHAN (b. 1966)
From 1988

DELIA FALCONER (b. 1966)
Republic of Love

MELISSA LUCASHENKO (b. 1967)
From Steam Pigs

SONYA HARTNETT (b. 1968)
From Of a Boy

ROMAINE MORETON (b. 1969)
Genocide is Never Justified

SAMUEL WAGAN WATSON (b. 1972)
White Stucco Dreaming
For the Wake and Skeleton Dance
Cheap White-goods at the Dreamtime Sale

CHI VU (b. 1973)
From Vietnam: A psychic guide

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