100 Australian Poems You Need to Know

Convict and Stockrider

• "A Convict's Tour of Hell", Francis MacNamara
• "The Beautiful Squatter", Charles Harpur
• "Taking the Census", Charles Thatcher
• "The Sick Stockrider", Adam Lindsay Gordon

The Red Page

• "My Other Chinee Cook", J. Brunton Stephens
• "Bell-Birds", Henry Kendall
• "Are You the Cove?", Joseph Furphy
• "How M'Dougal Topped the Score", Thos. E. Spencer
• "The Wail of the Waiter : A Tavern Catch", Marcus Clarke
• "Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest", Mary Hannay Foott
• "Catching the Coach", Alfred Chandler
• "Narcissus and Some Tadpoles", Victor J. Daley

Gundagai to Ironbark

• "Nine Miles From Gundagai", Jack Moses
• "The Duke of Buccleuch. An Old Story in a New Verse", J. A. Phelp
• "How We Drove the Trotter", W. T. Goodge
• "Our Ancient Ruin", Crupper D.
• "The Brucedale Scandal", Mary Gilmore
• "Since the Country Carried Sheep", Breaker Morant
• "The Man from Ironbark", A. B. Paterson
• "The Old Whim Horse", Edward Dyson
• "Where the Dead Men Lie", Barcroft Boake
• "Australia", Bernard O'Dowd
• "The Stockman's Cheque", E. W. Hornung
• "The Bullocky's Love-Episode", A. F. York

Bastard and Bushranger

• "The Bastard from the Bush", Anonymous
• "When Your Pants Begin to Go", Henry Lawson
• "The Fisher", Roderic Quinn
• "The Mystery Man", N. Q.
• "Emus", Mary E. Fullerton
• "The Death of Ben Hall", Will H. Ogilvie
• "The Coachman's Yarn", E. J. Brady
• "Fire in the Heavens", Christopher Brennan
• "The Orange Tree", John Shaw Neilson
• "The Dummy Bridge", C. J. Dennis
• "Morning", Hugh McCrae

Drought, Dusk and War

• "Said Hanrahan", John O'Brien
• "The Victoria Markets Recollected in Tranquillity", Furnley Maurice
• "Sea Music", W. J. Turner
• "Dusk in the Domain", Dorothea Mackellar
• "Kangaroo", D. H. Lawrence
• "Women Are Not Gentlemen", Harley Matthews
• "Day's End", Lesbia Harford
• "The Jester in the Trench", Leon Gellert
• "On Having Grown Old", Ernest G. Moll

Country Story

• "South Country", Kenneth Slessor
• "Football Field : Evening", J. A. R. McKellar
• "Country Places : Hell, Hay and Booligal!", A. D. Hope
• "They'll Tell You about Me", Ian Mudie
• "Death of a Whale", John Blight
• "A Country Song", Douglas Stewart
• "Bullocky", Judith Wright
• "The Australian Dream", David Campbell
• "The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, AIF", J. S. Manifold
• "Song Cycle of the Moon-Bone", Wonguri-Mandjigai People, Ronald M. Berndt (translator)
• "Because", James McAuley
• "A Curse on Herod", Amy Witting
• "A Simple Story", Gwen Harwood

Melbourne and Sydney

• "The Cliff", David Rowbotham
• "Lament for St Maria Goretti", Francis Webb
• "Stroke", Vincent Buckley
• "All Friends Together : A Survey of Present-Day Australian Poetry", R. A. Simpson
• "Affair of the Heart", Peter Porter
• "Life-Cycle", Bruce Dawe
• "Defeat", Evan Jones
• "Bequest", Philip Martin
• "Balmoral Summer '66", Vivian Smith
• "Early Discoveries", David Malouf
• "Threnody for Patrick White", Barry Humphries
• "Melbourne", Chris Wallace-Crabbe
• "At the Baths", Graeme Kinross-Smith
• "A Lifetime Devoted to Literature", Judith Rodriguez

Beyond Sprawl

• "The Quality of Sprawl", Les Murray
• "Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini", Clive James
• "Smalltown Memorials", Geoff Page
• "The Old Colonist", Andrew Taylor
• "The Old Rifle (Ross' Poems : 5)", Geoffrey Lehmann
• "The Blizzard", Roger McDonald
• "Anyone Home?", John Tranter
• "The Departing Light", Robert Gray
• "Sestina on Taking a Bus into Perth Past the Narrows Bridge", Hal Colebatch
• "Kidding Myself in Kuta, Bali : A Pantoum", Alan Smith
• "Learning to Write", Gary Catalano
• "Profiles of My Father", Rhyll McMaster
• "Barbecue", Peter Kocan
• "My Grandmother's Ghost", Kate Jennings
• "Ballade for Alan Gould", Alan Wearne
• "Pliers", Alan Gould
• "On Seeing the First Flasher", Vicki Raymond

The Generation of XYZ

• "Ode to Karl Marx", John Forbes
• "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis", Stephen Edgar
• "The Members of the Orchestra", Kevin Hart
• "The Ferris Wheel", Jennifer Harrison
• "The Domesticity of Giraffes", Judith Beveridge
• "When I Consider", Gig Ryan
• "Sky Writing", Sarah Day
• "Life", Kathleen Stewart
• "The Big Goanna", Philip Hodgins
• "Holy Sydney", Harry Cummins
• "Kristallnacht", Jemal Sharah
• "After Wendy Cope", Stephen McInerney