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Front cover of The Bulletin Reciter

Poet

J. S. Neilson

1872–1942

John Shaw Neilson was a lyric poet whose spare, musical work often joined hardship with visionary feeling and natural imagery.

The Bulletin Reciter · public-domain book image · Public domain in Australia

2 poems

Poems in this collection

Lyric intensity, family, loss and visionary landscape.

Bush life & characterMarian’s Child1901 · POEM-002281Memory, childhood & homeThe Land Where I Was Born1919 · POEM-001754