Celebrate World Poetry Day with some Adam Lindsay Gordon works
Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own. Many people may remember hearing these lines at some time, and…
SA’s worst maritime disaster – 165 years ago!
On Friday 5 August 1859, less than two years after her maiden voyage from Scotland, the 209-ton iron-hulled screw steamer Admella departed Port Adelaide just before sunrise on a cold…
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Gordon and ‘The Leap’ … 160 years ago
Australian poet and horseman Adam Lindsay Gordon made his famous daredevil ‘leap’ alongside the Blue Lake Mount Gambier 160 years ago, on 28 July 1864. He jumped his horse Red…
In memoriam – Adam Lindsay Gordon – 154 years on
Following the death of Adam Lindsay Gordon on 24 June 1870, there were many tributes to the man and his poetry, one of the first being from his good friend…
90 years since Adam Lindsay Gordon recognised in Westminster Abbey
On 11 May 1934, Adam Lindsay Gordon was accorded the greatest literary honour when His Royal Highness the Duke of York unveiled his bust in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey.…
World Poetry Day – why not delve into the work of Australia’s national poet?
Thursday 21 March 2024 is World Poetry Day. ‘A poet is, before anything else, a person who ispassionately in love with language.’WH AUDEN Held every year on 21 March, World…
Tribute to former caretaker of Dingley Dell Cottage
Vale Allan Childs (1941-2024) Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own Allan Alfred Childs was born at OB…
'Trooper Gordon & Kangaroo Jack' by Di Ashworth
Adam Lindsay Gordon remembered through art
The South East Art Society (SEAS) is holding its annual Members’ Exhibition in the Old Courthouse Gallery, Mount Gambier until 12 November 2023. There were two prize categories – the…
Adam Lindsay Gordon … born 190 years ago
On 19 October 1833, Australia's national poet was born at Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham and the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, England. Nineteen years later he left his homeland, never to return,…
On this day 164 years ago, the SS Admella was wrecked on Carpenters Reef
With a total complement of 113 on board, including 84 passengers and 29 crew, this would be the beginning of a week-long horrific ordeal, in mid-winter, at the mercy of…