Bruce Dawe
Australian poet whose plain-spoken verse about ordinary suburban and working-class Australians made him the most widely read Australian poet of the late twentieth century.
Works
- No Fixed AddressPoems about homelessness, poverty, and social displacement
- An Eye for a ToothCollection addressing violence, justice, and Vietnam War resistance
- Beyond the SubdivisionsPoems critiquing suburban conformity and suburban Australian life
- Sometimes GladnessAffirmative verses celebrating joy, pleasure, and human connection
- Collected PoemsSelection of Dawe's socially engaged and emotionally direct poems