While The Billy BoilsSearch
Campfire and billy illustration used for W. T. Goodge’s collection route

Poet

W. T. Goodge

1862–1909

English-born Australian journalist and poet whose comic and vernacular verse captured station work, shearers, drink and the rough theatre of bush life.

While The Billy Boils · collection artwork · Site artwork

3 poems

Poems in this collection

Station humour, vernacular character and comic bush narrative.

Bush humour & station lifeThe Bush Missionary1901 · POEM-001515Bush humour & station lifeMulligan's Shanty1899 · POEM-001518Bush humour & station lifeDaley's Dorg Wattle1899 · POEM-001520