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Roland Robinson

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
June 11 1912
Died
0707 02 19921992
The son of Irish migrants in Sydney, Robinson started work as a farmhand in his teens, where he developed a love of radical and romantic poets. A conscientious objector during WWII, Robinson began publishing poetry while working his long-term day job as a groundskeeper for a Sydney golf course.

Robinson was fiercely active in the Jindyworobak movement, a group of white poets born during the 1910s who wanted Australian writers to reject British trends and focus instead on their own country, especially inspired by Australian Aboriginals. Although many of the Jindyworobaks were interested in the idea of Aboriginals rather than the reality, Robinson developed a true interest in Indigenous cultures, and published collections of myths and stories he learned from visiting native communities around the country.

By middle-age, Robinson was a highly respected poet who served as editor of Poetry Magazine and was awarded the Patrick White Award and the Christopher Brennan Award. A library in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, is named in his honour.

Roland Robinson

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
June 11 1912
Died
0707 02 19921992
The son of Irish migrants in Sydney, Robinson started work as a farmhand in his teens, where he developed a love of radical and romantic poets. A conscientious objector during WWII, Robinson began publishing poetry while working his long-term day job as a groundskeeper for a Sydney golf course.

Robinson was fiercely active in the Jindyworobak movement, a group of white poets born during the 1910s who wanted Australian writers to reject British trends and focus instead on their own country, especially inspired by Australian Aboriginals. Although many of the Jindyworobaks were interested in the idea of Aboriginals rather than the reality, Robinson developed a true interest in Indigenous cultures, and published collections of myths and stories he learned from visiting native communities around the country.

By middle-age, Robinson was a highly respected poet who served as editor of Poetry Magazine and was awarded the Patrick White Award and the Christopher Brennan Award. A library in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, is named in his honour.

Books from Roland Robinson

Aboriginal Myths and Legends: Age-old Stories of the Australian Tribes

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Minah: My Uncle Abraham Whose Blackfeller's Name Was Minah

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Grendel

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