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Australian poetry classics: Adam Lindsay Gordon’s The Sick Stockrider captured the nation’s frontier anxiety

The Conversation 03 November 2026 11h ago
Australian poetry classics: Adam Lindsay Gordon’s The Sick Stockrider captured the nation’s frontier anxiety
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Adam Lindsay Gordon was once labelled ‘Poet of Australia’. Though his poetry hasn’t aged well, it still matters for its insights into the colonial mind.
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