Australian Great War Poetry

• Poet Name

  • Birth/Death - Origin
    • Poetry​ (Book, Poem)

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​Australian born and living in the Australia

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~~~New South Wales

1. Mary Gilmore

   1. 16 August 1865 - 3 December 1962: Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales

      1. The Passionate Heart (Book)

      2. The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore – Volumes 1 & 2 (Book)

         1. Gallipoli (Poem)​

         2. War (Poem)

         3. In Hospital (Poem)

2. Dorothea MacKellar

   1. 1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968: Sydney, New South Wales

      1. My Country (Poem)

      2. Australia's Men (Poem)

3. Winsome Jennings

   1. c1905 – c1980: Cassilis, Robertson, New South Wales

      1. The Call to Arms (Book)

      2. The War Worker and other poems (Book)

         1. August 5th, 1915 (Poem)​

         2. List to the Call (Poem)

4. Ella McFadyen

   1. 26 November 1887 - 22 August 1976: Stanmore, Sydney, New South Wales

      1. Who Gives (Poem)

      2. Till we Forget (Poem)

5. Agnes Littlejohn

   1. 1865 – 1944: Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales

      1. War Poems (Book)

      2. Patriotic Poems (Book)

      3. Lyrical Poems (Book)

      4. The Silver Road (Book)

         1. Advance, Australia! (Poem)

6. Nellie A. Evans

   1. 1884-1944: Goulburn, N.S.W.

      1. The remembered valley and other poems (Book)

7. Marjorie Quinn

   1. 28 November 1889 – 1972: Sydney, N.S.W.

      1. To a Young Soldier (Poem)

8. Doris Boake Kerr (pen name: Capel Boake)

   1. 29 August 1889 – 5 June 1944: Summer Hill, Sydney, New South Wales

      1. Anzac Day (Poem)

9. Frances M. Edgeworth Somers

   1. c1899 – 19??: Ballarat, New South Wales

      1. Victory (Poem)

~~~Victoria

1. Dorothy McCrae

   1. 1879 – 1937: Hawthorn, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria

      1. Soldier, my Soldier! (Book)

      2. The Clear Call (Book)

         1. The Call (Poem)​

2. Effie Allan

   1. 18?? – 19??: Victoria

      1. Gifts from Home (Poem)

3. Marion Knowles

   1. 1865-1949: Woods Point, Howqua - Woods Point area, Mansfield - Mount Buller area, Northern Victoria

      1. Men of Anzac, Men of Story (Poem)

      2. Tribute to the Memory of Campbell Peter (Poem)

4. Mary Fullerton

   1. 1868-1946: Glenmaggie, Heyfield - Rosedale area, Central Gippsland, Victoria

      1. War Time (Poem)

      2. Next Door (Poem)

5. Nettie Palmer

   1. 18 August 1885 – 19 October 1964: Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria

      1. Fourteen Years (Book)

      2. South Wind (Book)

      3. Shadowy Paths (Book)

         1. The Mother (Poem)​

6. Vida Goldstein

   1. 13 April 1869 – 15 August 1949: Portland, Victoria

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7. Philadelphia Nina Robertson

   1. 1866-1951: Wangaratta, Victoria

      1. An Anzac Budget and Other Verses (Book)

         1. Returned Wounded Spring, 1915 (Poem)​

         2. Killed at Gallipoli April, 1915 (Poem)

         3. A Woman’s Prayer (Poem)

8. Madoline ‘Nina’ Murdoch

   1. 1890-1976: North Carlton, Victoria

      1. Songs of the Open Air (Book)

      2. More Songs of the Open Air (Book)

         1. Coloured Bows (Poem)​

         2. Song of the Slum-Woman (Poem)

9. Marie E.J. Pitt

   1. 6 August 1869 – 20 May 1948: Bullumwaal in Gippsland, Victoria

      1. The Fat Man and the War (Poem)

10. Enid Derham

    1. 24 March 1882 – 13 November 1941: Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria

       1. Gallipoli (Poem)

       2. The Return (Poem)

11. Lesbian Harford

    1. 9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927: Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria

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~~~Queensland

1. Alice Gore-Jones

   1. 1887-1961: Toowong, near Brisbane, Queensland

      1. Troop Trains and Other Verses (Book)

         1. Anzac (Poem)​

         2. Spring, 1916 (Poem)

         3. The Lists (Poem)

2. Zora Cross

   1. 18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964: Brisbane, Queensland

      1. Songs of Love and Life (Book)

      2. The Lilt of Life (Book)

         1. Elegy of an Australian School Boy (Poem)​

3. Lala Fisher

   1. 27 January 1872 – 27 February 1929: Rockhampton, Queensland

      1. The Eroica Symphony (Poem)

4. Mabel Forrest

   1. 6 March 1872 – 18 March 1935: Yandilla, Darling Downs, Queensland

      1. The Outpost (Poem)

5. Joice Nankivell

   1. 24 January 1887 – 8 October 1982: Farnham, near Ingham, Queensland

      1. The Broken Soldier (Poem)

~~~South Australia

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~~~Western Australia

1. Freda Vines

   1. 26 February 1916 - 7 July 2000: Bunbury - Capel - Collie area, far Southwest Western Australia

      1. The Music Maker (Poem)​

~~~Tasmania

1. Hannah Chatwin

   1. 19 May 1864 – 30 December 1921: Wivenhoe, Burnie, Tasmania

      1. A Diary (Book)

         1. My Boy (Poem)

         2. The Song of the Sox (Poem)

2. May Leach

   1. 23 November 1903 – 25 August 1970: Burnie, Tasmania

      1. Will (Poem)

~~~Unknown Australia

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1. Florence Crossley

   1. ???? – 19??: Australia

      1. To you dear soldier (Poem)​​

2. Violet B. Cramer

   1. 1905-1985: Australia

      1. Stray Thoughts (Book)

      2. Memories of the Great War (Book)

         1. Gallipoli (Poem)​

3. Esther Nea-Smith

   1. 1889 – 1971: Australia

      1. Australia! Land of Blue and Gold (Book)

      2. At the Cenotaph (Poem)

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Australian born and living overseas

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New Zealand

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1. Nora McAuliffe (Nora Kelly)

   1. 18?? – 19??: Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

      1. The Song maker and Other Verses (Book)​

      2. Matter Triumphans (Poem)

      3. Anzac Ghosts (Poem)

Foreign born and living in the Australia

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~~~Scotland

1. Agnes Rose-Soley

   1. 1847 – 19 March 1938: Scotland: [migrated 18?? - ???]

      1. Stray Chords (Book)​

         1. The Call of the Blood (Poem)​

2. Joan Torrance

   1. 12 September 1867 -1943: Stranrear, Scotland: [migrated early 1880s – 13-18]

      1. Twixt heather and wattle (Book)

         1. On the Landing of Our Troops at Gallipoli (Poem)​

~~~Bahamas

1. May Kidson

   1. 30 September 1858 - 9 August 1942: Eastern District of the Island of New Providence, Bahamas: [migrated 18?? - ???]

      1. Memory’s Voices (Book)​

         1. The Mothers' Battalion (Poem)​

         2. 'Keep on Knitting, Girls' (Poem)

         3. Envoi (Poem)

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Unknown origin and living in the Australia

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1. Margery Ruth Betts

   1. 18?? – 19??: Unknown

      1. Remembering and Other Verses (Book)

         1. The Young Dead (Poem)​

         2. The Unborn (Poem)

2. Eleanor Farjeon

   1. 18??-19??: Unknown​

3. Helen M. Nightingale

   1. 18??-19??: Unknown

      1. Gallipoli (Poem)

      2. To H – in Wad A1 (Poem)

4. Rose Macaulay

   1. 18??-19??: Unknown

      1. Picnic 1917 (Poem)

5. Emily Bulock

   1. 1877-1969: Unknown

      1. At Toowong (Poem)

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