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Books

  • Fanning Discontent's Flames: Australian Wobbly Poetry, Scurrilous Doggerel, and Song. 1914 - 2007, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, March 2007. Image PDF Details
  • McDougall, The Trend of the Ages and Other Verse [extracts], Labor Call Print, Melbourne, 1922. Image PDF Details
  • O'Dowd, Bernard, Poetry militant, T. C. Lothian, Melbourne, 1909, 29 pp. PDF Details
  • Villiers, L. J., War on the workers, Workers' Press, Melbourne, 1918. Image PDF Details

Book Sections

  • Harris, Max, 'Introduction', in Ern Malley's poems, by James McAuley and Harold Stewart, 1970 edn, Mary Martin Publications, Adelaide, pp. 5-12. Details

Journals

  • Stream, vol. 1, no. 1, 1931. Image PDF Details
  • Australian New Writing, no. 1, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1943, 4-80 pp. PDF Details
  • On the Road, no. 7, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Sydney, Oct-Dec, 36 pp. images pdf Details
  • On the Road, no. 6, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Sydney, July-Sept, 32 pp. images PDF Details

Journal Articles

  • Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 'Hoax renders service to literature', Communist Review, March, 1945, pp. 457-7. Image PDF Details
  • R.H.L. [Richard Hooper Long], 'The Bolsheviks', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 4, no. 6, January 1918. Image PDF Details
  • R.H.L. [Rosa Lawrence?], 'The Taylor System', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 4, no. 4, October 1917. Image PDF Details
  • R.H.L. [Rosa Lawrence?], 'The Black Swan (Lakes Tyers Aboriginal Station)', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 5, no. 7, February 1919. Image PDF Details

Letters

  • unknown, Vale! Tillett, Goodbye, Ben!, This scan courtesy of University of Warwick Modern Records Centre, 1952, 1 pp. PDF Details

Newsletters

  • Treason: for Revolutionary Anarchism, Issue no. 2, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, May, 8 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason, Issue no. 5, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1981, 13 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason: For Revolutionary Anarchism, Issue no. 4, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, Spring, 1981, 8 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason: For Revolutionary Anarchism, Issue no. 3, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1981. images PDF Details
  • Treason, Issue no. 10, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1984, 8 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason: Anarchist Magazine, No. 14, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Melbourne, 1984, 8 pp. images PDF Details
  • Treason, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Perth, 1986, 13 pp. images PDF Details
  • Direct Action, Bulletin of the Australian Regional Organising Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World., Industrial Workers of the World - Australian ROC, Albany, Summer 2009-10, 16 pp. PDF Details
  • Treason, [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], n.d., 26 pp. images PDF Details

Newspapers

  • 'Direct Action', Publication of the Industrial Workers of the World - Australian ROC, Industrial Workers of the World - Australian ROC, Melbourne, Autumn 2012, 16 pp. PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Land Rights', Aboriginal and Islander Identity, Aboriginal Publications Foundation, Perth, 1978. Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
  • Eve's Daughter, 'Australian Women Poets: Mary Gilmore', Aussie, 15 May 1922. Image PDF Details
  • Jephcott, Sydney, 'A hymn for the dispossossed', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 6, 1 October 1893. Image PDF Details
  • Jones, Ernest Charles, 'Song of the lower classes', Beacon (Melbourne), 1 January 1894. Image PDF Details
  • Jones, Ernest Charles, 'Song of the factory slave', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 11, 1 March 1894. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • Queensland memories Street poetry. PDF Details
  • Bernard O'Dowd, Centenary Souvenir, Australian Poetry Lovers Society, Melbourne, 1966. Image PDF Details
  • Alaric, The village commune; a labour poem, Leaflets for the people no. IV, 1892. Image PDF Details
  • O'Reilly, Ciaron, Let's Not Get Carried Away: Poems from Queensland, Ciaron O'Reilly [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Brisbane, 1986, 15 pp. images PDF Details
  • Tory, Kevin, Sovereignty and Land Rights, Duncan, Kevin; Newman, April, National Coalition of Aboriginal Organisations, 1985-8?. Image PDF Details

Poems

  • 'Voices from the workers', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 1887. Image PDF Details
  • Boake, Barcroft, '"A Vision out West", in Boake, Barcroft, Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Verses, pp. 19-25', Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1897. images PDF Details
  • C.E.C., 'To the Women Voters of South Australia (by "One of Themselves")', 1896. Image PDF Details
  • Esson, Louis, 'Red Gums', Red Gums and other Verses, Fraser & Jenkinson, Melbourne, 1912. PDF Details
  • Ingamells, Rex, 'The gangrened people', At a boundary, Jindyworobak & F. W. Preece, Adelaide, 1941, pp. 8-12. PDF Details
  • Ingamells, Rex, 'Black Mary', At a boundary, Jindyworobak & F. W. Preece, Adelaide, 1941, p. 18. PDF Details
  • Ingamells, Rex, 'Unknown land', Jindyworobak Publications, Adelaide, 1943. PDF Details
  • Kendall, F. C., 'Stand together, men, as brothers', The Australian Workman, vol. 1, no. 30, 18 April 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
  • Lawson, Henry, 'Freedom on the wallaby', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 16 May 1891, p. 8. Image PDF Details
  • Lawson, Henry, 'When I was King', Angus & Robertson [This Scan Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1905. Image PDF Details
  • McAuley, James and Stewart, Harold, 'Preface and statement, Durer: Innsbruck, 1495', Ern Malley's poems, Mary Martin Publications, Adelaide, pp. 23-5. Details
  • O'Dowd, Bernard, 'Proletaria', The poems of Bernard O'Dowd, Lothian, Melbourne, 1941, pp. 47-57. PDF Details
  • O'Dowd, Bernard, 'Young democracy', The poems of Bernard O'Dowd, Lothian, Melbourne, 1941, pp. 59-61. PDF Details
  • O'Dowd, Bernard, 'Dawnward?', The poems of Bernard O'Dowd, Lothian, Melbourne, 1944. PDF Details
  • Palmer, Nettie, 'The frame', Fellowship: a monthly magazine of undogmatic religion and social and literary criticism (Melbourne), vol. 2, no. 5, December 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Ramsey, Maxwell J, 'Onward, workers!', Onward, workers! Lays of a labour journalist, Worker Trustees, Sydney, 1945. PDF Details
  • Sharkey, Michael, 'The late evening news', A time to choose: Australian poets and artists express their desire for a nuclear-free world, Anti-nuclear poetry book collective, 1984. Image PDF Details
  • Spielvogel, Nathan F, 'Eureka', John Fraser & Son, Ballarat, 1928. Image PDF Details
  • Walker, Kath, ''We are going' and 'Aboriginal charter of rights'', We are going, Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1964, pp. 1-10 & 25. Details
  • Walker, Kath, 'The dawn is at hand', The Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne, 1966, pp. 1-9. Details
  • Williams, Justina, 'How will I neet the darkness', A time to choose: Australian poets and artists express their desire for a nuclear-free world, Anti-nuclear poetry book collective, 1984. Image PDF Details
  • Wright, Judith, 'Two songs for the world's end', A time to choose: Australian poets and artists express their desire for a nuclear-free world, 1984. Image PDF Details

Reviews

  • 'Heraclitus', Published by some Sydney Libertarians, Pluralists, Realists and Critical Drinkers., no. 87, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Sydney, April, p. 16. images PDF Details

Zines

  • Woozy, no. 1, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Melbourne, 1992, 39 pp. images PDF Details
  • Woozy, no. 4, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Melbourne, 1993, 40 pp. images PDF Details
  • woozy, no. 2, [This scan courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Melbourne, 1993, 49 pp. images PDF Details
  • Woozy, no. 3, 1993, 55 pp. images PDF Details
  • Woozy, no. 5, [This scan courtesy of Iain McIntyre], Melbourne, 1994, 39 pp. images PDF Details
  • Wheezy!, Side project of 'Woozy', [This scan courtesy of Iain McIntyre], Melbourne, 1994, 20 pp. images PDF Details

See also

  • Phillips, John, 'In honour of a poet, lover and pacifist', The Age, 21 April 1999, p. 17. PDF Details