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Tributes to Australia's National Poet...

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Adam Lindsay Gordon....a shining soul

Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70), Australia's acclaimed national poet was many things in his time.  A mounted trooper, champion jockey, horse breaker and Member of Parliament.  He was the first to capture Australia and her people in the words of poetry, paving the way for Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and William Ogilvie to create poetry that was uniquely Australian.  In his travels, he lived in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia - no mean feat at a time when travel was on horseback or by sailing ship, and his words spread by word of mouth across the nation.  Read more about Gordon's life here...
:: Patrons :: Visit to Westminster Abbey :: Sacred Squares

The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc. are delighted that Professor Weston and Janice Bate have accepted our invitation to be patrons.  In accepting the invitation, Professor Bate has since written to us to say;

"Gordon has always fascinated me especially for the way people who knew him and of him in Mt Gambier, Ballarat and Brighton have kept his memory alive….he is special in my mind as the representative of South Eastern Australian culture, in contrast with Lawson and Patterson."

On behalf of the committee and members, we warmly welcome the Bates as patrons.

The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc were recently in the UK.  On 27 October, the Vice-President and Treasurer laid a wreath at the Adam Lindsay Gordon's bust - the only Australian poet commemorated in the Abbey.  Our thanks to Canon Robert Reiss for allowing us to pay tribute.

The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc. recently visited the sacred squares of the last home of Poet Gordon.  Salvaged by Cyril E Goode after the home was condemned by the former Brighton City Council, plans are in earnest to make one last final attempt to save the bricks.  You can read more in Issue 8 of our newsletter The Wayfarer.