The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry
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Frederick Charles Vosper moved in 1893 to the WA goldfields where he worked on numerous newspapers in Cue, Geraldton, and Perth, including The Murchison Miner. He also edited The Coolgardie Miner. From mid-1895 Vosper edited The Geraldton Express. With Edward Ellis, he established The Sunday Times, serving as editor after Ellis’s death in 1898. In 1897 he was elected as an independent member to the North-East Coolgardie seat of the Legislative Assembly.
Corey Wakeling (b.1985) grew up in Kalamunda Shire in the Darling Ranges, near the Zig Zag. His first poem was published in 1999 in Crowd Control, a Perth zine. He is the author of collections Goad Omen (Giramondo, 2013), and The Alarming Conservatory (Giramondo, forthcoming). Corey co-edited Outcrop: Radical Australian Poetry of Land (Black Rider Press, 2013). He lives at present in Nishinomiya, Japan.
Robert Walker was strongly influenced in his early childhood by elderly tribal members of his family who lived in Andamooka. He moved to Perth in 1982 and was immediately in trouble with the law. He escaped from the East Perth lock-up and was rearrested in Adelaide two days later. Walker served a term in a South Australian prison before being extradited to WA and being declared a habitual criminal. However, numerous assessments during Walker’s years suggest that he ‘was of above average intelligence with considerable literary, musical and artistic skills’.
Oscar Walters was working as a miner at Sandstone, WA, when the First World War began. He enlisted in June 1915, and served in the Third Field Company at Gallipoli, France and Belgium. Discharged in February 1919, Walters returned to WA where he became a regular contributor to the Westralian Worker, at that time edited by John Curtin.
Griffith Watkins was born in New Zealand to a New Zealand mother, Kate, and Australian father, Larry Watkins and moved to WA at the age of 6. Watkins completed a Bachelor of Education at UWA and was the winner of numerous prizes for his poetry and fiction. His work was also broadcast on ABC radio. He took his own life by drowning at the age of 39.
Mags Webster’s first collection of poetry, The Weather of Tongues (Sunline Press, 2011), won the Anne Elder Award. She lives in WA. ‘Nights in Suburbia’ was published in 2011 in dot dot dash magazine and The Weather of Tongues (Sunline Press, 2011).
Annamaria Weldon is a poet, essayist, and photographer of natural habitats. She migrated to WA in 1984 with her first poetry collection Ropes of Sand (Ass. News, Malta, 1983). The Roof Milkers (Sunline Press, 2008) followed, then The Lake’s Apprentice (UWAP, 2014), a compilation of prose, poetry and photographs prompted by her eco-artist Residency at SymbioticA (2009–2011). She received the inaugural Nature Conservancy Australia Essay Prize 2010, the Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2011 and was shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2012.
Joan Williams (‘Justina Williams’) grew up on a farm in Kendenup, WA. She trained as a journalist and worked on The West Australian and the Daily News. She was politically active from the 1920s and a prominent member of the WA branch of the Communist Party of Australia from 1939. In the early 1970s she participated in the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Women’s Electoral Lobby and from 1980 was secretary of the Australian Peace Committee. Williams wrote and published as ‘Justina Williams’ and was a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Some of the early poetry of Thomas H. Wilson (‘Crosscut’) was published in the Bulletin and later in the Kalgoorlie Sun. His verse was often inspired by current affairs. Wilson joined the AIF in 1915 at age 47, although he stated his age as 39. He served at Gallipoli before returning to Australia in 1916. Several of his later poems were inspired by this period of military service.
Morgan Yasbincek has published three collections of poetry and one novel. Her first collection, Night Reversing won the Anne Elder and Mary Gilmore awards, Firelick was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s C.J. Dennis award and White Camel, her most recent collection. was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award. Her novel was shortlisted for the ASAL gold medal award and was highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s awards. Morgan has taught creative writing at Murdoch University, ECU, UEA in England, and at various community workshops in Australia and overseas. She has also mentored several emerging WA writers’ manuscripts. She currently lives in the Perth hills, works full-time and is working on a couple of writing projects.
Fay Zwicky has published 8 books of poetry, the most recent of which is Picnic (Giramondo, 2006). Her awards include the NSW Premier’s Award, the WA Premier’s Award, the Patrick White Award and the Christopher Brennan Award.
List of First Publications
We acknowledge the difficulty of representing recordings of the ancient oral traditions of the traditional owners and custodians of Western Australia. All possible attempts have been made to seek approval from family members for inclusion of poems in this anthology. Accompanying notes in this anthology aim to clarify and be transparent about the origins of such material.
A note on Ngarla Songs: these songs were recorded as a long-term project by De Grey Station man Alexander (‘Sandy’) Brown and field linguist Brian Geytenbeek between 1984 and 1999. Sandy was a man of many talents who learned to read and write under Brian’s tuition in order to record and preserve his language for posterity. As Sandy remembered and wrote down each song, he provided Brian with the name of each composer. He later also sang them into a tape recorder. The arrangement of the material in the book Ngarla Songs was made by Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre at the time of the audio digital recording and subsequent publication of Ngarla Songs (FACP, Fremantle, 2003).
Details of poems’ first publication are as follows: A’: ‘Mount Eliza’, Perth Gazette, 26/12/1835. Acaster: ‘O’er a Native’s Grave’, Fremantle Herald, 16/7/1881. Dick Alderson: ‘Skein’, Westerly, vol. 58, no. 1, June 2013. Alan Alexander: ‘Limestone at Margaret River’, Quarry: A Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle: FP, 1981. Anonymous, ‘A New Song’, Perth Gazette, 16/11/1849. Baaburgurt (Bulyen, George Elliot), ‘Exile’s Lament’, song translated and recorded by Daisy Bates, ‘Poems of Palaeolithic Man’, The Australasian, 2/1/1926. Jeremy Balius: ‘Day 6’, Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets, Fremantle: FP, 2013. Peter Bibby: ‘Wornaway Bat’, Wordhord: A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle: FP, 1989. Michael Youlin Birch: ‘2516349, Jones, Private W.’ , Light Me a Candle, Melbourne: Gray-Brown’s Literary Enterprises, 1969. ‘The Boulder Bard’ (‘Willy-Willy’): ‘Ode to West Australia’, The Sun, Kalgoorlie, 9/4/1899. John Philip Bourke (‘Bluebush’): ‘When I am Dead’, Kalgoorlie Miner, 16/1/1914 as well as in Off the Bluebush: Verses for Australians West and East, Sydney: Tyrrells, 1915. Allan Boyd (The Antipoet): ‘fly in fly out fly in fly out’, blogspot
ary Champion: ‘Long Park’, Those Who Remain Will Always Remember. An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing, Fremantle: FACP, 2000. Alfred Chandler (‘Spinifex’): ‘Coolgardie 1893’, The Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 888, Feb. 1897; ‘Lights Along the Mile’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 5/2/1905 as well as The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse, London: OUP, 1918; ‘The Poet, The Bulletin, Perth, 1935. Alec Choate: ‘Words for a Granddaughter’, Patterns, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer 1980; ‘Dingo’, Mind In Need Of A Desert, Fremantle: FACP, 1995. Jimmy Chi: ‘Black Girl’, Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings, St Lucia: UQP, 1990. Nandi Chinna: ‘Hydrology’, Swamp: Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain, Fremantle: FP, 2014. Liana Joy Christensen: ‘Idiom’, Indigo, no. 6, Summer 2011. Henry Ebenezer Clay: ‘Two and Two’, A Story of the Australian Forest; with Minor Poems of Colonial Interest, Perth: M. Shenton, 1873. Hal Colebatch: ‘Autumn Morning’, Westerly, vol. 28, no.1, March 1983; ‘The Romantic Poet Goes On a Little Journey,’ In Breaking Waves: Poems, Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1979. Philip Collier: ‘Grave Change’, New Poetry, vol. 26, no. 3, Oct.–Nov. 1978. Shevaun Cooley: ‘let down at birth into the dark well and overflowing with it (Wednesday’s Child) ‘Southerly 74:2, Nov. 2014. Coppin Dale (Garargeman or Yinbal): ‘Gold Fever’, Jawi in Yindjibarndi, courtesy of Juluwarlu Group and Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, who acknowledge Noelene Harrison and Frank Rijavec for their initiative in recording this song. Transcription and translation by Juluwarlu with Yindjibarndi elders and F. Rijavec. Toby Davidson: ‘H2’, Meanjin The Best of New Writing in Australia, vol. 67, no. 2, 2008. Jack Davis: ‘Mining Company’s Hymn’, Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia, Sydney: Methuen, 1977; ‘John Pat’, John Pat and Other Poems, Ferntree Gully: J.M. Dent, 1988; ‘Rottnest’, ‘Forest Giant’, ‘Red Robin’, Black Life: Poems, Jack Davis, St Lucia: UQP, 1992; ‘The First-born’, The First-born and Other Poems, Sydney: A&R, 1970. Maree Dawes: ‘Gesso’, Women of the Minotaur: Les poèmes des Femmes de Picasso, Floreat: Tactile Books, 2008. ‘Delta’: ‘The Song of the Ticket of Leave Man’, Inquirer, 3/9/1851. Brian Dibble: ‘A Poet Remembers the Farm’, Quadrant, vol. 22, no. 9, Sept. 1978. Graeme Dixon: ‘Prison’; ‘Holocaust Island’, Holocaust Island, St Lucia: UQP, 1990. Dorham Doolette: ‘The Ballade of Cottesloe Beach’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 25/2/1906. Lucy Dougan: ‘The Chest’; ‘Mannequin Brides’, White Clay, Artarmon: Giramondo, 2006. Mary Doyle (‘May Kidson’): ‘Perth in the Morning Light’, Western Mail, 21/12/1922, as well as The Sunday Times, 28/12/1924. ‘The Exile’: ‘Caste’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 1/1/1905. Gabrielle Everall: ‘Stink’, ‘Concord as you get off the Concorde’, Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys, Bayswater: Success Print, 2007. Wolfe Fairbridge: ‘Consecration of the House’, Southerly, vol. 11, no. 2, 1950; ‘Karri Forest’, Poems, Sydney, A&R, 1953. Mick Fazeldean: ‘Whirlwind’, Taruru: Aboriginal Song Poetry from the Pilbara, Carl von Brandenstein and Tony Thomas, Adelaide: Rigby, 1973, reproduced with permission of Lindi Dridi. Sarah French: ‘Boy’, Westerly, vol. 49, Nov. 2004. William Grono: ‘Separation’, Westerly, no. 2, 1973. Kevin Gillam: ‘the furniture of thought’, Blast, no. 8 (New Series), 2008. Sunil Govinnage: ‘I Don’t Write Poems in Sinhala Anymore’, White Mask: A Collection of New Australian Poetry, USA: iUniverse, 2004. Lilian Wooster Greaves: ‘The Farmer’s Daughter’, Wongan Way and West Australian Wildflowers 1916, Perth: 1927. Kia Groom: ‘Phantasmagoria’, Australian Book Review: States of Poetry, australianbookreview.com.au/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-western-australia. William Hart-Smith: ‘Cormorants, Trigg Island’, Wide Domain: Western Australian Themes and Images, Sydney: A&R, 1979; ‘Galahs’, ‘Razor Fish’, The Talking Clothes: Poems, Sydney: A&R, 1966. Dennis Haskell: ‘The Basis of All Knowledge’, Listening at Night, Sydney: A&R, 1984; ‘After Chemo’, Salt Magazine, no. 1 (New Series), 2007; ‘No-one Ever Found You’, Abracadabra, Fremantle: FACP, 1993; ‘The Trees’, Acts of Defiance: New and Selected Poems, London: Salt Publishing, 2010. Nicholas Hasluck: ‘Bikini Atoll’, ‘Yilgarn’, Anchor and Other Poems, Fremantle: FP, 1976. Paul Hasluck: ‘At the Aquarium’, Collected Verse, Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1969. Charles Wiltens Andrée Hayward: ‘Belinda’, The Geraldton Express and Murchison Goldfields News: 20/3/1896; ‘Along the Road to Cue’, The Geraldton Express, 6/12/1895. Michael Heald: ‘Pear Tree’, ‘Leeches’, Focusing Saturn, Fremantle: FP, 2004. Percy Henn: ‘A Soldier’s Funeral’, The Dying Bushman: and Other Western Australian Verses, Perth: E.B. Bayliss, 1924. Paul Hetherington: ‘Meckering Earthquake’, Six Different Windows, Crawley, WA: UWAP, 2013, and Metabolism: Australian Poetry Ltd Members Anthology 2012, Melbourne: APL, 2012. Dorothy Hewett: ‘The Valley of the Giants’, Southerly, Memory, vol. 51, no. 3, Sydney: A&R, 1991; ‘In Midland Where the Trains Go By’, Westerly, no. 3, 1959; ‘Once I Rode with Clancy’, Westerly, no. 1, 1959; ‘Living Dangerously’, Rapunzel in Suburbia, Sydney: Prism: 1975; ‘The Salt Lake’, Halfway up the Mountain, Fremantle: FACP, 2001. Siobhan Hodge: ‘Apple’, Picking up the Pieces, Cambridge: Wide Range Chapbooks series, 2012. Ee Tiang Hong: ‘Coming To’, Westerly, vol. 31, no. 3, Sept. 1986; ‘Perth’, Wordhord: A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle: FACP, 1989. Peter Hopegood: ‘On Ninety-Mile Beach’, Austral Pan and Other Verses, Perth: Imperial Print Company, 1932. Frieda Hughes: ‘Wooroloo’, Kunapipi, vol. 20 no. 3, 1998. ‘Humanitas’: ‘A Black-fellow’s Appeal’, Inquirer, Perth, 30/7/1873. Afeif Ismail: ‘The Empire of My Grandmother’, Mum! This World Lies to Us!!, Perth: Samantha International Multicultural Publishing Inc, 2009. Jackson: ‘am I not?’, Westerly, vol. 55, no. 2, Nov. 2010; ‘suck faint amity’, Creatrix, no. 7, Dec. 2009. Peter Jeffery: ‘Pompeii in Australia’, Soundings: A Selection of Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle: FACP, 1976. Wendy Jenkins: ‘The Silence of Mussels,’ Island, no. 67, Winter 1996; ‘Dolphin Sightings’, Salt, vol. 11, no. 9, 1999. Miriny-Mirinymarra Jingkiri: ‘Koolinda in Harbour’, ‘At Wurruwangkanya Jawiri is Increasing the Cold’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Wirrkaru Jinkiri: ‘Doctor’s Day’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Kristy Jones: ‘The Past Still Lives’, Those Who Remain Will Always Remember. An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing, Fremantle: FACP, 2000. Beate Josephi: ‘In Praise of a Second Language’, Friendly Street Poetry Reader No. 11, Unley: Friendly Street Poets, 1987. Amanda Joy, ‘Snake Skin, Roe Swamp’, Snake Like Charm Series, littleglasspen.blogspot.com.au. Yintilypirna Kaalyamarra: ‘Rows and Rows of Rain Clouds’, ‘The Coastline Looks Strange to Me from Out Here’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Jan Teagle Kapetas: ‘Slaughtering the Lamb’, Sudden Alchemy: Selected Australian Poetry, Cottesloe: FAWWA, 1998. Katakapu: ‘A Stranger to this Country, I’m Following Them’, ‘Night Drive in a V-8 Buckboard’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Graham Kershaw: ‘The Heywood Spire’, Westerly, December 2012. Wimia King (Wimiya): ‘Tjanginara the Plane’, C.G von Brandenstein and A.P. Thomas, Taruru: Aboriginal Song Poetry from the Pilbara, Adelaide: Rigby, 1973. courtesy of Juluwarlu Group and Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, who acknowledge Carl Georg von Brandenstein for his initiative in recording this song. John Kinsella: ‘Playing Cricket at Wheatlands’, The Monthly, July 2015; ‘Goat’, The New Yorker, 3/5/2010. Lee Knowles: ‘Opportunity Shop’, Patterns, vol. 2 no. 3, Winter 1976; ‘Batavia Islands’ Invaders of the Heart, Carindale: Interactive Publications, 2008; ‘Shape-Shifter’, Dial Marina, Fremantle: FP, 1986. Andrew Lansdown: ‘Between Glances’, Between Glances, Port Melbourne: Heinemann Australia, 1993; ‘Emergence’, Quadrant, vol. 38, no. 10, Oct. 1994. Roland Leach: ‘Seven Miles to School,’ Beneath the Reef in Shorelines: Three Poets, South Fremantle: FACP, 1995; ‘Grandmother’, Australian Multicultural Book Review, vol. 2, no. 3, 1994. Kate Lilley: ‘South Perth Poems’, Versary, Applecross: Salt, 2002. Merv Lilley: ‘The Lesson’, Westerly, no. 4, 1967; ‘Swift’, Regime No. 5, 2015. Miriam Wei Wei Lo: ‘Don’t Call Me Grandma,’ Hecate: AnInterdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, vol. 25 no. 2, 1999; ‘Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River’, Westerly, vol. 50, Nov. 2005. G
ordon Mackay-Warna: ‘Grassfire’, ‘Tableland Bushfire’, C.G. von Brandenstein and A.P. Thomas, Taruru: Aboriginal Song Poetry from the Pilbara, Adelaide: Rigby, 1973. Reproduced with permission Cheryl Mackay. Kenneth Mackenzie: ‘The Snake’, The Bulletin, vol. 73, no. 3772, 28/5/1952; ‘A Robin, Too’, ‘Judith Sewing’, Selected Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie, Sydney: A&R, 1961; ‘The Awakening’, The Bulletin, vol. 74, no. 3855, 30/12/1953. Caitlin Maling: ‘The Break’, Australian Poetry Journal, March 2013. Annie H. Mark: ‘When Morning-glory Trims a Fence’, Poems of the West, Perth: E.S. Wigg, 1929. John Mateer: ‘Fire Imagined’, Burning Swans, Fremantle: FP, 1994; ‘The Frog-Memory’, Spitting Out Seeds, Carlton North: Anatman, 1999; ‘Contemplating a Migraine’, Summer Conversations, vol. 4, no. 2, Summer 2004. ‘Ghost Wedding’, Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia, Singapore: Ethos Books, 2008. Shane McCauley: ‘The Cosmonauts Smell Flowers’, Patterns, vol. 6 no. 2, Summer 1980; ‘The Dissolution of a Fox’, Quadrant, vol. 47 no. 10, Oct. 2003. David McComb: ‘Behind the Garages of this Country’, Blessed Be’, Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb, Fremantle: FP, 2009. David McCooey: ‘Pink Moon’, Star Struck, Perth, UWAP, 2016. Philip Mead: ‘There’s Small Grass Appearing on the Hill-side’, The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Fremantle: FP, 2017. Mingkarlajirri: ‘The Marble Bar Pool Spirit is Releasing a Flood’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Scott-Patrick Mitchell: ‘him’, ‘Eight Letters To A Lover, II’, {where n equals} a determinacy of poetry in New Poets I, Fremantle: FP: 2010. George Fletcher Moore: ‘Western Australia for Me’, written and performed as a song in September 1831 at Governor Stirling’s first ball. Rod Moran: ‘A Memoir of Birds’, Listening to the Train Passing, Claremont: Platypus Press, 1994; ‘My Daughter Reading’, Quadrant, vol. 47, no. 67, June 2003. Sally Morgan: ‘I Can Count’, ‘Janey Told Me’, excerpts from Sister Heart, Fremantle: FP, 2015. Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson): ‘Auntie Margaret’, Pacific Highway Boo-Blooz: Country poems, St Lucia: UQP, 1996; ‘ImagesArtytypesStereotypes’, New Music: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, Wollongong: Five Islands Press, 2001. Edwin Greenslade Murphy (‘Dryblower’): ‘The Lodes that Under-Lie’, ‘The Rhymes that Our Hearts Can Read’, Jarrahland Jingles: A Volume of Westralian Verse, Perth: R.S. Simpson for The Sunday Times, 1908. F.W. Ophel: ‘His Epitaph’ Kalgoorlie Sun, 26/2/1911; ‘The Phantoms of the Dark’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 26/07/1903. Old Tumbler: ‘Racecourse Wharlu’, Jawi in Yindjibarndi: the transcription of this song is taken from Yindjibarndi elder Karri Monadee, who was recorded singing the song by Frank Rijavec and Noelene Harrison; song courtesy of Juluwarlu Group and Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, who acknowledge Noelene Harrison and Frank Rijavec for their initiative in recording this song. Transcription and translation by Juluwarlu with Yindjibarndi elders and F. Rijavec. Song appears courtesy of Alma Tumbler. John Boyle O’Reilly: ‘The Dukite Snake’, Songs from the Southern Seas, Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873 as well as A West Australian Bushman’s Story: Songs, Legends and Ballads, Boston: Pilot Publishing Co., 1878; ‘The Gaol’, The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems, Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881. Waparla Pananykarra: ‘It’s Standing Still After the Motor Has Been Started Up’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Charmaine Papertalk-Green: ‘Don’t Want Me to Talk’, ‘A White Australia Mindset’, ‘Blinding Loyalty’, Cordite Poetry Review Obsolete, no. 49.0, Feb. 2015; ‘Strong Wajarri Man’, Island, no. 127, Summer 2011. Olive Pell: ‘Monte Bello’, The Bulletin, vol. 73, no. 3773, 4/6/1952; ‘My Patriarchal Table Nest’, Patterns, vol. 1, no. 1, Winter 1974. Glen Phillips: ‘Spring Burning’, Spring Burning: New and Selected Poems (1967–1997), Folio/Salt, 1999; ‘Fourteen Tankas for Salt-Lake Country’, Salt, Applecross: Folio/Salt, 1996. Jirlparurrumarra Piraparrjirri: ‘Our Poor Trees are Almost Submerged’, Ngarla Songs, Fremantle: FACP, 2003. Marcella Polain: ‘Zero Point Four’, Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems, Melbourne: John Leonard Press, 2008 and Blast, no. 7 (New Series), 2008. Claire Potter: ‘The Appeal of Cranes’, La Traductiere, Paris: La Traductière, 2008. Katharine Susannah Prichard: ‘The Earth Lover’, The Earth Lover and Other Verses, Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, 1932. Henry Charles Prinsep: ‘Josephine’, Random Rhymes, Busselton: self-published, 1915. J.P. Quinton: ‘Little River’, Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets, Fremantle: FP, 2010; ‘Ode to C.Y. O’Connor’, The River Tarmac, chapbook, 2009. Emma Rooksby: ‘Garbage’, Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets, Fremantle: FP: 2010. Zan Ross: ‘Absolute Daily Disposable’, Salt, vol. 10, South Fremantle: Salt/Folio, 1997. Tracy Ryan: ‘Lost Property’, Australian Book Review, 10/3/2009, as winner of the ABR Peter Porter Prize, ‘First Burn’, Island, no. 309, March 2009. Philip Salom: ‘Seeing Gallipoli From the Sky’, Sky Poems, Fremantle: FACP, 1987; ‘Barbecue of the Primitives’, Barbecue of the Primitives, St Lucia: UQP, 1989; ‘Ode to Skin’, The Keeper of Fish, Puncher & Wattmann, 2011; ‘We Called it the Engine’, Alterworld, Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2014. Kim Scott: ‘Kaya’, commissioned in 2016 for the Perth Stadium. Jack Sorensen: ‘My River’, The Collected Poems of Jack Sorensen, 1907–1949, Perth: Service Printing Co., 1950; ‘The Dead Don’t Care’, ‘Breakaways’, The Ghosts of Bayley Street: The Collected Poems of Jack Sorensen, 1907–1949, West Perth, WA: Herald Resources and Hesperian Press, 1992. Randolph Stow: ‘The Land’s Meaning’, Australian Poetry 1962, Sydney: A&R, 1962; ‘Merry-go-round’, Westerly, vol. 55, no. 2, Nov. 2010; ‘Penelope’, Westerly, no. 3, Oct. 1970; ‘Persephone’, Modern Australian Writing, London: Collins, 1966; ‘Ruins of the City of Hay’, Verse in Australia, vol. 4, 1961; ‘Still Life with Amaryllis Belladonna’, The Land’s Meaning: New Selected Poems: Randolph Stow, Fremantle: FP, 2012. Alf Taylor: ‘Moorditj Yorgah’, Salt Magazine, no. 1 (New Series), 2007; ‘The Land’, Westerly, vol. 54 no. 2, Nov. 2009. Andrew Taylor: ‘Swamp Poems’, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 73, 2002. Barbara Temperton: ‘Night Camp’, ‘Splinter’, Westerly, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter 1997. Ian Templeman: ‘First Death’, These Glimpsed Interiors, Canberra: Molonglo Press, 1997. Pat Torres: ‘Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, The Rain Bird’, Jalygurr: Aussie Animal Rhymes: Poems for Kids, Broome: Magabala Books, 1987. W.C. Thomas: ‘The Terrace’, Dancing Leaves 1913, Perth: 1931. Joan Williams (‘Justina Williams’): ‘No Coward Colour’, The Dreaming Vine: Poems of Peace, Women and Environment, Northbridge: Realist Writer Group, 1970. Frederick Charles Vosper: ‘The New Woman’, Hannan’s Herald, Kalgoorlie, 13/12/1895. Corey Wakeling, ‘Lingo Surprise’, Cordite 50.0, May 2015. Robert Walker: ‘Solitary Confinement’, Up, Not Down, Mate!: Thoughts from a Prison Cell, West Torrens area: Catholic Chaplaincy to Aborigines, 1981. Oscar Walters: ‘ ’17 and ’32’, Westralian Worker, 15/4/1932. Griffith Watkins: ‘Heatwave’, ‘Bar Brawl’, God in the Afternoon: Selected Poetry and Fiction of Griffith Watkins, Fremantle: FACP, 1990. Mags Webster: ‘Nights in Suburbia’, The Weather of Tongues, Perth: Sunline Press, 2011. Annamaria Weldon: ‘Coracle’, Island, no. 117, Winter 2009. Thomas H. Wilson (‘Crosscut’): ‘A Man was Killed in the Mine Today’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 12/5/1907; ‘The Boulder Block’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 30/6/1907; ‘The Poverty Pot’, Kalgoorlie Sun, 23/6/1907. Morgan Yasbincek: ‘the reindeer’, ‘with my sister at the funeral parlor’, White Camel, Melbourne: John Leonard Press, 2009. Fay Zwicky: ‘Kaddish’, Kaddish and Other Poems, St Lucia: UQP, 1982; ‘Picnic’, Picnic, Artarmon: Giramondo, 2006.