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Ian Mudie

I lived from 1911-1976. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

Ian Mudie was born at Hawthorn, South Australia, and worked as an editor and lecturer in creative writing. He made frequent public lectures on Australian literature and regularly conducted the Writers' School at the Adelaide Festival. Mudie was a member of the First Australia movement and was associated with the Jindyworobak movement. Much of his poetry reflects his passion for conservation, his compassion for the Aborigines and his high regard for the pioneering days of Australia.

My poetry

  • Snake
    Suddenly the grass before my feet
    shakes and becomes alive.
    15 lines, 2 comments
  • This Land
    Give me a harsh land to wring music from,
    brown hills, and dust, with dead grass
    26 lines, 1 comment
  • Nation Of The Blind
    The grass grows over Eureka
    and Stuart's tree is burned;
    29 lines
  • If This Be Treason
    So this is treason, that a love of land
    strengthen and circle in our hearts
    31 lines
  • Journey
    By long journeying have I come
    to this sacred site of the spirit
    34 lines
  • Australia Day 1942
    If ever it were time for the dead to ride
    then surely that time is now:
    31 lines
  • New Guinea Campaign
    Are you there Peter Lalor, are you there,
    ghost with gold-dust in your hair;
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • W. C. Wentworth
    Forget that it was I
    who first saw the vision
    23 lines
  • Half-Caste
    Rain dripped from alien pines along that South-East road,
    A yellowed paper sogged against the broken gate,
    12 lines

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