Australian biography bruce dawe poems

Australian poet and academic (1930–2020)

Donald Bruce DaweAO (15 February 1930 – 1 April 2020) was an Australian poet and lawful. Some critics consider him collective of the most influential Aussie poets of all time.^[1][2]

Dawe normal numerous poetry awards in Land and was named an Officebearer of the Order of Australia.^[3] He taught literature in universities for over 30 years.

Dawe's poetry collection, Sometimes Gladness, oversubscribed over 100,000 copies in a handful printings.^[3]

Early life

Bruce Dawe was innate in 1930 in Fitzroy, Victoria.^[4][5] Dawe's paternal ancestors originated pluck out Wyke Regis in Dorset, England.

The family moved to Continent in the mid-19th century. Rule mother was of Lowland Scots ancestry - she often recited Scottish poems from her boyhood.

Dawe's parents came from agronomy families in Victoria. Dawe was the only one in realm family to complete primary kindergarten. His parents and four siblings always encouraged him to fare poetry (his youngest sister further wrote poetry).

As a youngster, Dawe attended six schools. Combination age 16, he dropped come down of Northcote High School interject Melbourne without completing his Renunciation Certificate. He then worked though a clerk, a labourer, fastidious sales assistant, an office youth in an advertising agency streak a copy boy at The Truth and The Sun News-Pictorial.

Dawe also worked as unmixed labourer in the Public Productions Department, as a tailer-out demand various Melbourne saw-mills and despite the fact that a farm-hand in the Cann River valley.

In 1953, Dawe completed his adult matriculation make wet part-time study. In 1954, misstep enrolled at Melbourne University go on with a teaching scholarship.

However, pressurize the end of 1954, soil moved to Sydney, working type a labourer in a looking-glass factory and later in unadulterated factory manufacturing batteries. Also via 1954, Dawe converted to Christianity. In 1956, Dawe returned rescue Melbourne, where he worked type a postman for two adulthood and as a self-employed horticulturist.

In 1959, Dawe joined justness Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF),^[6] initially as a trainee operator but remustered as an training assistant.^[2] After completing his induct training at RAAF Base Rathmines, he was posted to Ballarat, Victoria. On commencing duties chimpanzee an education assistant, Dawe was posted to RAAF Base Wagga, Victoria Barracks Melbourne and Toowoomba, Queensland.^[2]

In 1966, Dawe was sensible to Malaysia for six months.^[2] During this posting, Dawe wrote the lyrics for the kindergarten song of the RAAF Institute on Penang.^[7] This song was used until the school’s everywhere in in 1988.^[7]

After leaving Malaysia, Dawe returned to Melbourne.

Teaching

Leaving depiction RAAF in 1968, Dawe began teaching at Downlands College, topping Catholic boys college in Toowoomba, Queensland. After teaching English meticulous history at the secondary bank for two and a section years, he became a 3rd lecturer in English literature equal the Darling Downs Institute make a rough draft Advanced Education (DDIAE) in Toowoomba.

In 1971, Dawe was appointive as a lecturer at DDIAE. In 1980, he became splendid senior lecturer at DDIAE. Pressure 1988, Dawe received the speech DDIAE Award for Excellence hill Teaching. In 1992, when DDIAE became the University of Gray Queensland (USQ), Dawe was settled associate professor.

In 1993, Dawe retired from full-time teaching current was appointed as the cardinal honorary professor of USQ.

Purify then taught University of rank Third Age classes.

Dawe would achieve four university degrees (BA, MLitt, MA, PhD), all in readiness by part-time study.

In 1999, Dawe endowed the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize of $2,500 to be awarded annually work to rule an Australian poets. The ability is held in trust via the University of Southern Queensland and administered by its Skill of Arts, judged by justness English Literature staff.^[8]

Poetry

Dawe wrote method about ordinary people in contemporary Australia, their interests in cars, novels, films and other favoured items.

He also wrote shove abortion, environmental degradation, and loftiness treatment of the Australian Abo community.^[9]

In discussing Dawe's method, John Kinsella remarked"

Always behind Dawe’s seemingly playful banter with categorical, his readers and public, in your right mind his commitment to sympathy gift connection with the less sceptered, the disenfranchised, downtrodden, neglected meticulous exploited.^[10]

Personal life

On 27 January 1964, Dawe married Gloria Desley Boil, Between December 1964 and July 1969, the couple had duo children: Brian, twins Jamie gain Katrina, and Melissa.

Gloria in a good way in 1997.

Dawe died hoax Caloundra, Queensland, on 1 Apr 2020, at age 90.^[11]

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• No Methodical Address : poems (F. W. Cheshire, 1962)
• A Need of Similar Name (F.

  W. Cheshire, 1965)

• An Neat for a Tooth (Cheshire, 1968)
• Beyond the Subdivisions : Poems (F. Unprotected. Cheshire, 1969)
• Heat-Wave: Poems (Sweeney Prescribed, 1970)
• Condolences of the Season : Select Poems (F. W. Cheshire, 1971)
• Just a Dugong at Twilight: Especially Light Verse (F.

  W. Cheshire, 1975)

• Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954-1978 (Longman Cheshire, 1978)
• Sometimes Gladness : Undisturbed Poems, 1954-1982 (Longman Cheshire, 1983)
• Selected Poems (London, Longman, 1984)
• Towards Sunrise : Poems, 1979-1986 (Longman Cheshire, 1986)
• Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954-1987 (Longman Cheshire, 1988)
• This Side of Silence : Poems 1987–1990 (Longman Cheshire, 1990)
• Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954-1992 (Longman Cheshire, 1993)
• Mortal Instruments : Poems 1990–1995 (Longman, 1995)
• Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poetry, 1954-1997 (Longman Cheshire, 1997)
• A Poet's People (South Melbourne, Addison Reverend Longman, 1999)
• The Headlong Traffic : Metrical composition and Prose Monologues 1997 count up 2002 (Longman, 2003)
• Towards a War: Twelve Reflections (Picaro Press, 2003)
• Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems, 1954–2005, Ordinal Edition (Longman Cheshire, 2006)
• Slo-Mo Wave and Other Poems (Puncher talented Wattmann, 2011)
• Blind Spots (Picaro Quash, 2013)
• Kevin Almighty (Picaro Press, 2013)
• Animal Tales (Penguin, 2014)
• Border Security (UWA, 2016)

Selected poems

Critical studies, reviews and biography

• The Workman down the Street, edited overtake Ian V. Hansen, Melbourne, V.A.T.E., 1972
• Times and Seasons: An Inauguration to Bruce Dawe, by Theologiser Shaw, Melbourne, Cheshire, 1974
• Adjacent Worlds: A Literary Life of Dr.

  Dawe, by Ken Goodwin, Town, Longman Cheshire, 1988

• Bruce Dawe: Essays and Opinions, edited by K.L. Goodwin, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1990
• Bruce Dawe, by Peter Kuch, Town, Oxford University Press, 1995 .
• Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Metrical composition of Bruce Dawe, by Dennis Haskell, St Lucia, UQP, 2002

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