List of poets from Oceania
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This is a list of poets from Oceania.
Australia[edit]
- Banjo Paterson, wrote the poem "Waltzing Matilda"; died in 1941
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse;[1] d. 1993
- Les Murray, got the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and was on the shortlist for the International Griffin Poetry Prize; d. 2019
- Pages appear in Category:Australian poets
New Zealand[edit]
- Rowley Habib, got (the award) Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship; d. 2016
Samoa[edit]
- Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia, known for poem Kidnapped (about the loss of traditional Samoan knowledge), and poetry Patches of the Rainbow (published in the Samoa Observer);[2] born 1951
Other countries in Oceania, has famous poets.
Related pages[edit]
Sources[edit]
- ↑ "Oodgeroo Noonuccal." Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Vol. 27. Gale, 2007
- ↑ "Patches of the rainbow by Ruperake Petaia". National Library of Australia catalogue.Retrieved 17 November 2009
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