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Vale Bruce Dawe, Australia's 'Poet of Suburbia'

  • Written by Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
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“Katrina, I had in mind a prayer, but only this came,” Bruce Dawe wrote to his infant daughter, new-born, in intensive care, her life in the balance, declaring as poets must that their poems are the best and only real gift they can give.

I did not know Dawe, who died aged 90 on Wednesday, but I knew his...

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