The literature of Australia: an anthology

George Worgan / From Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon -- Watkin Tench / From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson -- Bennelog / Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney's Steward -- Elizabeth Macarthur / Letter to Brigid Kingdon -- Matthew Flinders / From A Voyage to Terra Australis -- Barron Field / The Kangaroo -- Annonymous / The Native's Lament -- Henry Savery / From The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land -- Anonymous / A Swan River Eclogue -- Anonymous / Jim Jones at Botany Bay -- Charles Stuart / From Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia -- Eliza Dunlop / The Aboriginal Mother (from Myall's Creek) -- Frank the Poet / A Convict's Tour to Hell -- Anonymous / Moreton Bay -- Eliza Brown / Letter to Her Father -- Louisa anne Meredith / From Notes and Sketches of New South Wales -- Charles Harpur / The Beautiful Squatter -- A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest -- A Confession -- The Consummation -- Mary Ann Arthur / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land -- Walter George Arthur / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land -- Ellen Clacy / From a Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-1853 -- Caroline Carleton / The Song of Australia -- Thomas Brune / The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle -- The Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle -- Weekly Chronicle -- William Barak / Letter to the Editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines -- Catherine Helen Spence / From Clara Morison -- Rolf Boldrewood / From Robbery Under Arms -- D.H. Deniehy / Speech on Mr. Wentworth's Constitutional Bill -- Anonymous / The Eumerella Shore -- Anonymous / The Wild Colonial Boy -- Adam Lindsay Gordon / The Sick Stockrider -- Waif Wander / The Spider and the Fly -- Louisa Atkinson / Cabbage-Tree Hollow, and the Valley of the Grose -- George Chanson / Stringy Bark and Green Hide -- Ernest Giles / From Australia Twice Traversed -- Henry Kendall / Bell-birds -- W.H.L. Ranken / From The Dominion of Australia -- A.J. Boyd / The Shepherd -- Joseph Furphy / From Such is Life -- Ada Cambridge / Seeking -- An Answer -- The Wind of Destiny -- Marcus Clarke / From His Natural Life -- Nasturtium Villas -- Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift -- Mary Hannay Foott / Where the Pelican Builds -- Louisa Lawson / That Nonsensical Idea -- Tasma / Monsieur Caloche -- Bessie Cameron / Letter to the Editor -- E.J. Banfield / From The Confessions of a Beachcomber -- Taam Sze Pui / From My Life and Work -- Audrey Tennyson / Letter to Her Mother -- Ned Kelly / The Jerilderie Letter -- Price Warung / How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast -- Barbara Baynton / The Chosen Vessel -- Victor Daley / Correggio Jones -- Kitty Brangy / Letter to Edith Brangy -- Annie Rich / Letter to Solicitor, for Captain Page, Secretary of the Victroian Board for the Protection of Aborigines -- William Cooper / Petition to the King -- Banjo Paterson / The Man from Snowy River -- Waltzing Matilda -- Mulga Bill's Bicycle -- A.G. Stephens -- Mary Gilmore / Eve-Song / The Measure / Old Botany Bay -- Australia -- Fourteen Men -- Barcroft Boake / Where the Dead Men Lie -- Bernard O'Dowd / Australia -- Henry Lawson / Faces in the Street -- The Drover's Wife -- The Union Buries Its Dead -- In a Dry Season -- Steele Rudd / From On Our Selection! -- Mary E. Fullerton / War Time -- Ethel Turner / From Seven Little Australians -- Christopher Brennan / 'She is the night: all horror is of her' -- 'Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills' -- 'O desolate eves along the way, how oft' -- ' The land I Came thro'last was dumb with night' -- Henry Handel Richardson / From The Fortunes of Richard Mahony -- Louis Stone / From Jonah -- John Le Gay Brereton / ANZAC -- Transports -- Maggie Mobourne / Petition to D.N. McLeod, Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines / Constance Campbell Petrie / John Shaw Nelson / Honeythirst -- The Girl With the Black Hair -- The Orange Tree -- The Poor, Poor Country -- David Unaipon / Aborigines, Their Traditions and Customs: Where did They Come From? -- Hungarrda -- Narrinyeri Saying -- The Voice of the Great Spirit -- Anna Morgan / Under The Black Flag -- Fred Biggs and Roland Robinson / The Star-Tribes -- C.J. Dennis / From The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke -- Louis Esson / From The Time is Not Yet Ripe -- P.J. Hartigan / Said Hanrahan -- Miles Franklin / From My Brilliant Career -- Letter to Katharine Susannah Prichard -- C.E.W. Bean / From On the Wool Track -- Norman Lindsay / From The Magic Pudding -- Frederic Manning / From The Middle Parts of Fortune -- William Ferguson and John Patten / Anna Wickham / The Sick Asailant -- Katharine Susannah Prichard / Marlene -- Letter to Miles Franklin -- Dorothea Mackellar / Ny Country -- Nettie Palmer / From Fourteen Years -- Lesbia Harford / In the Public Library -- 'My heart is a pomegranate full of sweet fancies' -- Machinist's Song -- Grotesque -- Martin Boyd / From Outbreak of Love -- Jean Devanny / From Sugar Heaven -- Robert Menzies / The Forgotten People -- A.B. Facey / From A Fortunate Life -- Marjorie Barnard / Australian Literature -- The Persimmon Tree -- M. Barnard Eldershaw / From Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Norman Harris / Letter to Jim Bassett -- Ricketty Kate / Via the bridge -- A.A. Phillips / The Cultural Cringe -- Kenneth Slesson - Up in Mabel's Room -- Backless Betty from Bondi -- Five Bells -- Last Trams -- South Country -- Beach Burial -- Xavier Herbert / From Capricornia -- Eleanor Dark / From The Timeless Land -- Pearl Gibbs / Radio Broadcast -- J.M. Harcourt / From Upsurge -- Christina Stead / From For Love Alone -- Uncle Morgan at the Nats -- Alan Marshall / The Grey Kangaroo -- Dymphna Cusack and Florence James / From Come in Spinner -- Robert D. Fitzgerald / The Wind at Your Door -- Lennie Lower / Where the Cooler Bars Grow -- Eve Langley / Native-born -- From The Pea Pickers -- John Morrison / The Nightshift -- Doug Nicholls / Letter to the Editor -- A.D. Hope / Australia -- Ascent into Hell -- The Death of the Bird -- Crossing the Frontier -- Inscription for a War -- The Mayan Books -- Judah Waten / From Alien Son -- Hal Porter / From The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony -- Kylie Tennant/ From Ride on Stranger -- Patrick White / From Voss -- The Prodigal Son -- Miss Slattery and Her Demon Lover -- George Johnston / From My Brother Jack -- Joe Timbery / The Boomerang Racket -- Douglas Stewart / The Green Centipede -- The Fierce Country -- Marree -- Afghan -- Place Names -- Sombrero -- Bill Neidjie / Ahh...Bush-Honey There! -- Donald Friend / From The Diaries of Donald Friend -- J.S. Manifold / The Tomb of Lieutenant John Learmonth, A.I.F. -- Judith Wright / South of My Days -- The Surfer -- Nigger's Leap, New England -- Woman to Man -- Eroded Hills -- The Two Fires -- At Cooloolah -- Eve to Her Daughters -- Memory -- Skins -- David Campbell / Men in Green -- Winter -- Kelly Country -- The Australian Dream -- Manning Clark / From A History of Australia -- Yirrkala People / Yirrkala Bark Petition -- Narritjin Maymuru / Letter to Mr. H.E. Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, NT -- Jessica Anderson / From Tirra Lirra by the River -- James McAuley / Envoi -- Terra Australis -- Dialogue -- St. John's Park, New Town -- Credo -- Father, Mother, Son -- Jack Davis / The First-born -- The Black Tracker // Warru -- Intergration -- Walker -- Ern Malley / Durer: Innsbruck, 1495 -- Night Piece -- Petit Testament -- Vincent Lingiari / Gurindji Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General -- Olga Masters / The Christmas Parcel -- Ida West / From Pride Against Prejudice -- Rosemary Dobson / Child With a Cockatoo -- Over the Frontier -- The Almond-tree in the King James Version -- Who? -- Reading Aloud -- Colin Thiele / From The Sun on the Stubble -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal / Speech Launching the Petition of the Federal coucil for Aboriginal Advancement -- Aboriginal Charter of Rights -- The Dispossessed -- We Are Going -- Assimilation-No! -- Integration-Yes! -- The Dawn is at Hand -- No More Boomerang -- Ballad of the Totems -- Robin Dalton / From Aunts Up the Cross -- Gwen Harwood / Father and Child (part 1) -- Matinee -- Carnal Knowledge II -- Andante - Dialogue -- Mother Who Gave Me Life -- Bone Scan -- The Sick Philosopher -- Letter to Tony Riddell -- Ray Lawler / From Summer of the Seventeenth Doll -- Donald Horne / From The Education of Young Donald -- Rita Huggins and Jackie Huggins / From Auntie Rita -- Jacob G. Rosenberg / From East of Time -- Dorothy Hewett / Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod -- Grave Fairytale -- Living Dangerously -- From the Man from Mukinupin -- From Wild Card -- Charmian Clift / Images in Aspic -- Eric Rolls / From A Million Wild Aces -- Elizabeth Jolley / Night Runner -- Monica Clare - From Karobran -- Francis Webb / The Explorer's Wife -- End of the Picnic -- Eyre All Alone (part I) -- Ward Two (parts I and II) -- Vincent Buckley / Golden Builders (part I) -- Thea Astley / From It's Raining in Mango -- Jessie Lennon / From And I Always Been Moving! -- Alan Seymour - From The One Day of the Year -- Bruce Beaver / Letters To Live Poets (parts I and VI) -- Peter Porter / Sydney Cove, 1788 - On This Day I Complete My Fortieth Year -- Sex and the Over Forties -- An Exequy -- What I Have Written I Have Written -- R.A. Simpson / Evening -- Parallels -- K.S. Inglis / From Sacred Places -- Geoffrey Blainey / From The Rush that Never Ended -- Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew / The Dragon of Kashmire -- Bruce Dawe - A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love -- Homecoming -- And a Good Friday Was Had by All -- Frank Malkorda / Ngalalak/White Cockatoo -- Muralkarra/Crow -- Shirley Hazzard / From People in Glass Houses -- Christopher Koch / From The Year of Living Dangerously -- Vivian Smith / Balmoral Summer / Tasmania -- Sydney Perhaps -- Kevin Gilbert / People Are Legends -- From The Cherry Pickers -- Redfern -- Me and Jackomari Talkin' About Land Rights -- Tree --

Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra Song of Dreamtime

Fay Zwicky / Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989

Makassar, 1956

Jennifer Strauss / Discourse in Eden

A Mother's Day Letter: Not for Posting

Barry Humphires / Maroan

Edna's Hymn

Letter to Richard Allen

From More Please

Chris Wallace-Crabbe / The Swing - Introspection

God

An Elegy

Puck Disembarks

New Year

David Malouf / The Year of the Foxes

Poem

A First Place

The Only Speaker of His Tongue

7 Last Words of the Emperor Hadrian

Ruby Langford Ginibi / From Don't Take Your Love to Town

Jill Ker Conway / From The Road from Coorain

Bob Randall / Brown Skin Baby

Inga Clendinnen / From Tiger's Eye

Randolph Stow / From The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

Thomas Keneally / From Bring Larks and Hearoes

From Schlindler's Ark

Rodney Hall / From Just Relations

Missing Person - Thomas Shapcott / The City of Home

For Judith Wright

Charles Perkins / Letter to the Editor

Eirc Willmot / From Pamulwuy

Burnum Burnum / The Burnum Burnum Declaration

Alex Miller / From The Ancestor Game

Herb Wharton / Boat People

Big Trial

Doris Pilkington/ From Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Les Murray / Rainwater Tank / The Quality of Sprawl

Second Essay on Interest: The Emu

Bats' Ultrasound

Hearing Impairment

Poetry and Religion

The Tin Wash Dish

The Last Hellos

The Instrument

The Cool Green

Frank Moorhouse / From Forty-Seventeen

Mudrooroo / From Master of the Ghost Dreaming

Robert Hughes / From Culture of Complaint

Mary Rose Liverani / From The Winter Sparrows

Clive James / From Unrealiable Memoirs

Gerald Murnane / Why I Write What I Write

Barbara Hanrahan / Tottie Tippett

Germaine Greer / From Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

Peter Steele / Ape

J.S. Harry / Journeys West of 'War'

Geoff Page / Smalltown Memorials

Andrew Taylor / The Dead Father

Jimmy Pike / From Yinti

J.M Coetzee / From Elizabeth Costello

Geoffrey Lehmann / Thirteen Long-Playing Haiku

Murray Bail / Life of the Party

Jennifer Rankin / Cliffs

Slow Wing

First Poem

Metamorphosis

Beverley Farmer / Ismini

Roger McDonald / From Shearers' Motel

Gerry Bostock / From Here Comes Nigger

Helen Garner / From The Children's Bach

The Life of Art

At the Morgue

David Williamson / From Emerald City

John a. Newfong / To Number One Fella Big White Boss

Robert Adamson / Sonnets to be Written from Prison

My Granny

Songs for Juno

The Greenshank

Thinking of Eurydice at Midnight

Peter Carey / American Dreams

From True History of the Kelly Gang

Barry Andrews / Lap, Phat

John Tranter / At the Laundromat

Ode to Col Youe

Country Veranda

Having Completed My Forieth Year

After Holderlin

Barry Hill / Lizards

Philip McLaren / From Sweet Water...Stolen Land

William Yang - From Sadness

Roberta Sykes / From Snake Cradle

Robert Drewe / From the Shark Net

Gerard Windsor / Addendum to the First Fleet Journals

Robert Dessaix / From A Mother's Disgrace

Paul Keating / The Ghost of the Swagman

David Foster / From The Glade Within the Grove

Peter Skrzynecki / Migrant Hostel

Anne Summers / From Damned Whores and God's Police

Robert Gray / Diptych

Michael Leunig / One of the Preambles

The Life Cycle of the Supermarket Trolley

How Democracy Actually Works

Kev Carmody / From Little Things Big Things Grow

John Muk Muk Burke / A Poem for Gran

Drusilla Modjeska / From Stravinsky's Lunch

Martin Johnston / The Sea-Cucumber

The typewriter, considered as a bee-trap'

Bruce Pasco / The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher

Errol West / 'Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here?

David Marr / From Patrick White

Amanda Lohre / From Camille's Bread

Alf Taylor / The Wool Pickers

Michael Dransfield / Pas de Deux for Lovers

Fix

Flying

John Scott / Pride of Erin

Plato's Dog

Galarrwuy Yunupingu / Barunga Statement

John Clarke / Muse of Bauxite

A Child's Christmas in Warrambool

Patrick Dodson / Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions

Pam Brown / At The Wall

Rosie Scott / The Value of Writers

Alan Wearne / From The Lovemakers

Come on Aussie

Alan Gould / Rain Governs the Small Hours

Laurie Duggan / From The Ash Range

From The Epigrams of Martial

Drinking Socially

Air Time

Glenyse Ward / From Wandering Girl

Ken Bolton / Paris to Pam Brown

Jennifer Martiniello / Uluru by Champagne

Emily Kngwarreye

Yahia Al-Samawy / Your Voice is My Flute

Jennifer Maiden / Dracula on the Moriato

Old Europe Stared at Her Breakfast

Kevin Brophy / Box

John Forbes / To the Bobbydazzlers

Stalin's Holidays

Ode/'Goodbye Memory'

Speed, a Pastoral

Love Poem

Anzac Day

Kate Grenville / From Lilian's Story

Kenny Laughton / The Tunnel Rats of Phuoc Tuy

Philip Salom / Seeing Gallipoli from the Sky

Louis Nowra / From Radiance

Mick Dodson / We All Bear the Cost if Apology is Not Paid

Alexis Wright / From Palins of Pormis / From Carpentaria

Brian Castro / From Shanghai Dancing

Ani Walwicz / Australia

Little Red Riding Hood

Sally Morgan / From My Place

Marcia Langton / From ' Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television...'

Stephen Edgar / All Will be Revealed

Sun Pictorial

Jill Jones / The Night Before Your Return

Peter Goldsworthy / The Kiss

Australia

Sam Watson / From The Kadaitcha Sung

Kevin Hart / Facing the Pacific at Night

The Calm

Dorothy Porter / From The Monkey's Mask

Michael Gow / From Away

Graeme Dixon / Six Feet of Land Rights

Holocaust Island

Archie Roach / Took the Children Away

Gail Jones / Modernity

Peter Rose

Ouyang Yu / The Ungrateful Immigrant

Listening to the Chinese Woman Philosopher

Gig Ryan / If I Had a Gun

Hay Fever

Critique of Pure Reason

Pat Torres / Gurrwayi Gurrwai, The Rain Bird

Wangkaja, The Mangrove Crab

Mandawuy Yunupingu / Treaty

Judith Beveridge / Yachts

How to Love Bats

The Saffron Picker

Kerry Reed-Gilbert / Let's Get Physical

Hannie Rayson / From Hotel Sorrento

Nick Cave / Opium Tea

Kim Scott / From Benang

Michelle De Kretser / From The Hamilton Case

Anthony Lawrence / The Language of Bleak Averages

A Profile of the Dead

Lionel Fogarty / Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive

Decorative Rasp, Weaved Roots

Ecolology

For I Come

Death in Custory

Kath Walker

'Dulpai

Ila Ngari Kim Mo-Man'

Sarah Day / Quickening

Take Heart

Philip Hodgins / A Palinode

Shooting the Dogs

Strahbogie Ranges, 1965

Cytotoxic Rigor

Venero Armanno / From The Volcano

Tim Winton / My Father's Axe

Adam Aitken / Post-colonial

Changi

Lisa Bellear / Women's Liberation

Woman of the Dreaming

Urbanised Reebocks

Taxi

Richard Flanagan / From The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Jordie Albiston / The Fall

Emma Lew / Marshes

Nettle Song

Luke Davies / Totem Poems

Craig Sherborne / Ash Saturday

Ricahrd Frankland / Two World One

John Kinsella / The Vital Waters

Tracy Ryan / Wungong

Eclipse, Kenwick

Christos Tsiolkas / From Dead Europe

Andrew McGahan / From 1988

Delia Falconer / Republic of Love

Melissa Lucashenko / From Steam Pigs

Sonya Hartnett / From Of a Boy

Romaine Moreton / Genocide is Never Justifies

Samuel Wagan Watson / White Stucco Dreaming

For the Wake and Skeleton Dance

Cheap White-goods at the Dreamtime Sale

Chi Vu / From Vietnam: A psychic Guide