Contemporary Australian Poetry ★ Published & Archived by Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters ISSN 2204-0420 ★ Categorised by Social Generation (cohort) as defined by Australia’s McCrindle Research Centre & The Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Contemporary Australian Poets & Poetry
ARCHIVE Category: Baby Boomers [b.1946-64]
Michael Dransfield (12 September 1948 – 20 April 1973) was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1,000 poems. He has been described as one of the most widely read poets of his generation. Dransfield was born in Sydney, and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He briefly studied English literature and language more »
Anthony Lawrence two poems from Headwaters 2015. Anthony Lawrence is one of Australia’s leading poets. In 2015 Lawrence was awarded the Philip Hokgins medal and in 2017 won the Prime Ministers award for Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry, 2016) These two poems were first published by Bareknuckle Poet in our inaugural annual Anthology Vol.1, 2015 more »
The Long Bay Debating Society I spent my twenty-first in Long Bay Penitentiary Each day in the front yards We paced up and down At night I read novels And the poetry of Percy Shelley Sometimes an education officer Would turn up and ask What are you going to do with your future? I’d tell more »