I lived from 1915-1979.
I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.
David Campbel: born July 16th 1915 in Ellerslie Australia. He was the son of a Doctor-Grazier. He married Bonnie Lawrence in January 1940 (divorced 1973) and then married Judy Dale (a historian) in 1974. He had 2 children from his first marriage Andrew and Raina.
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David Campbell served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1939 to 1945, serving in the South Pacific, he reached the rank of Wing Commander and received the Distinguished Flying Cross with bar.
Works by David Campbell
Speak With the Sun (poems),
The Miracle of Mullion Hill : Poems,
Evening Under Lamplight (stories),
Poems
(Editor) Australian Poetry ,
Selected Poems, 1942-1968,
The Branch of Dodona and Other Poems 1969-1970, .
(Editor) Modern Australian Poetry 1970
Selected Poems , 1942-1970,
Starting From Central Station (poems),
Devils' Rock and Other Poems ,
Deaths and Pretty Cousins , Australian National University Press, 1975.
Poets on Record, Volume XIV : David Campbell, University of Queensland
Poems From the Russian of Anna Akmatova and Osip Mandelstam, Australian National University Press, 1975.
Flame and Shadow: Selected Stories, University of Queensland Press, 1976.
(With Keith Ronald Looby) The History of Australia (songs and poems), Macleay Museum, 1976.
Selected Poems, 1942-1975,
Words With a Black Orpington 1978.
The Man in the Honeysuckle, 1979.
(With Dobson) Seven Russian Poets , University of Queensland Press, 1979.
David Campbell: Collected Poems, edited by Leonie Kramer, Angus & Robertson (North Ryde, NSW), 1989.
(Poems) Peter Stanbury and John Clegg, A Field Guide to Aboriginal Rock Engravings with Special Reference to Those Around Sydney/ , Sydney University Press, 1990.
Contributor to literary journals and newspapers, including Hemisphere, Meanjin, New Poetry, Overland, and Quadrant. Poetry editor of Australian, 1964-65.
My poetry
Oh, there were fifteen men in green,
Each with a tommy-gun,
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I sat beside the red stock route
and chewed a blade of bitter grass
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The sun was in the summer grass,
the Coolibahs* were twisted steel;
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What ancestors unite
Here in this red and white
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Oh, Bill and Joe to the north have gone,
A green shirt on their back;
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Beachcomber on the shores of tears
Limning the gestures of defeat
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