Rod Moran
Australian poet and journalist
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Rod Moran (born 1952) is an Australian poet and journalist.
Moran lives in Western Australia. He has written poetry, and books, as well as being a regular contributor to The West Australian newspaper on military history.
He has also won awards for his poetry.[1]
He has written books challenging significant historical issues about the Forrest River massacre, in particular the role and reliability of Ernest Gribble.[2]
He has also engaged in an extended debate with historians about the issues.[3][4][5][6][7]
He is also experienced in extensive oral history work from a project in Rockingham, Western Australia.[8][9][10]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections
- Moran, Rod (1981). High rise sniper. Illustrated by Melody Hampton. Artlook Books.
- — (1994). Listening to the train passing. Platypus Press.[a]
- — (2005). The paradoxes of water : selected and new poems 1970-2005. Salt Publishing.[b][c]
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memoir of birds | 1996 | Moran, Rod (May 1996). "Memoir of birds". Quadrant. 40 (5): 30. | |
| The Dean Martin rave | 1996 | Moran, Rod (May 1996). "The Dean Martin rave". Quadrant. 40 (5): 31. | |
| A homage to the elephant | 2003 | Moran, Rod (July–August 2003). "A homage to the elephant". Quadrant. 47 (7–8 [398]): 57. | |
| Kimberley II | 2016 | Moran, Rod (January–February 2016). "Kimberley II". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 111. | |
| Style | 2016 | Moran, Rod (January–February 2016). "Style". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 111. | |
Non-fiction
- Moran, Rod (1992). Synoptic catalogue for the Rockingham Oral History Archive. Rockingham District Historical Society.
- — (1995). Icon of the North : the legend of Tom Gray. Access Press.
- — (1999). Massacre myth : an investigation into allegations concerning the mass murder of Aborigines at Forrest River, 1926. Foreword by Francis Theodore Page Burt. Access Press.
- — (2002). Sex, maiming and murder : seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend E.R.B. Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness to the truth. Access Press.
- — (2016). "A forensic footnote to the Forrest River debate". Quadrant. 60 (7–8): 73–74.
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- Bibliography notes
- "Poets deserve a wider audience". The Canberra Times. Vol. 71, no. 22, 129. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 18 November 1995. p. 63. Retrieved 22 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.