Australian Great War Poetry

The following are articles and papers which are related to Australian Great War poetry. As more articles and papers are discovered, AGWP will add them to this list. The date in brackets is the official date of the paper, whether that is publication or mere authorship. You can click on the article name to read the article. It should be noted that AGWP does not endorse any opinions held by authors of these articles. The inclusion of these articles and papers is purely to site work which has a relevance to Australian Great War poetry. This site will consider all papers which have relevance, whether they are written by academics, researchers or enthusiasts. There are many papers related to 1st World War poetry, however, only those directly related to AGWP are included here. If you have a paper for submission, please contact AGWP in the Contact page.

 

• Andrew Lynch

  • C.J. Brennan’s A Chant of Doom: Australia’s Medieval War (2007)

• Andrew Taylor

  • A Blameless Boyhood: Australian Poetry about the Great War (1987)

• Catherine Akça

  • Transnational Identity In Robyn Rowland’s Australian/Turkish Poems: This Intimate War: Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 - İçli Dişli Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915 (2015)

• Jacqueline Manuel

  • Australian Civilian Women’s Poetic Responses to the First World War (1996)

• Kerrie Handasyde

  • Anzac Theology and Women Poets Under the Southern Cross (2017)

• Michael Sharkey

  • ‘But who considers woman day by day?’ - Australian women poets and World War I (2007)

• Sarah Justine Midford

  • From Achilles to Anzac: Classical Receptions in the Australian Anzac Narrative (PhD Thesis – 2016)

  • Anzacs and the Heroes of Troy: Exploring the universality of war in Sidney Nolan’s ‘Gallipoli Series’ (2013)

  • Bean’s Anzac Book shaped how Australians think about Gallipoli (2015)

• Mark Gregory

  • Australian Working Songs and Poems – A Rebel Heritage (PhD Thesis – 2014)

• Dale James Blair

  • ‘An Army of Warriors, these Anzacs’: Legend and Illusion in the First AIF (PhD Thesis – 1998)

• Canadian War Museum Military History Research Centre

  • Trench Newspapers of the First World War

• Dominic Sheridan

  • ‘The Whining Wowser’ - An Australian War of Words in Egypt’s venereal capital, Cairo, 1915 (2016)

  • God in Australian Great War Poetry (2017)

  • The Demotic Tongue of Mateship in Australian Great War Literature: The Vernacular Humourist (2017)

  • Boredom in the Trenches: The Rhyme and Reason of Wartime Indolence at Gallipoli (2019)

  • “As a Choir of Frogs” - Nightmares in Australian Great War Poetry (2020)

• ​Peter Craven

  • The Light Horse at Beersheba was poetry in motion (2017)

• Patrick Buckridge​

  • The Writer Alan D. Mickle: Serendipity, Vanity and Obscurity in an Australian Literary Career (2009)

• John Francis Swain​

  • 'His Own Privacy' - Frederic Manning: A Critical and Historical Analysis. (PhD Thesis - 2001)

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