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By permission of the NLA	Dawe, Bruce (950 works by all writing names) (a.k.a. Dawe, Donald Bruce; Choate, Leyburn) Also writes as: Rhys, Llewellyn (4 works); Dawe, D. B. (1 work); Hamilton, Frank (1 work) Born: 15 Feb 1930 Fitzroy, Victoria Gender: Male Archives: Search for literary archives for Dawe, Bruce

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In some of his poetry, including the well-known 'Drifters', Bruce Dawe describes his itinerant childhood in Melbourne and country Victoria. His first poems were published under the pseudonym of Llewellyn Rhys while he was a student at Northcote High School. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, Dawe worked as a labourer, farmhand, clerk, gardener and postman. In 1954 he attended the University of Melbourne full-time, where the influence of other poets, including AD Hope, Vincent Buckley an....

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Martin, Philip (a.k.a. Martin, Philip John Talbot) 28 Mar 1931 - 18 Oct 2005 Hope, A. D. (a.k.a. Hope, Alec Derwent) 21 Jul 1907 - 13 Jul 2000 Buckley, Vincent (a.k.a. Buckley, Vincent Thomas; Buckley, V. T.) 8 Jul 1925 - 12 Nov 1988

 

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