Charles Buckmaster

Charles Buckmaster (1950–1972) was an Australian poet.^[1][2][3][4] He was involved in the publication of The Great Auk.^[5]

During his lifetime, he published two volumes of poetry, both reprinted after his death by the University of Queensland Press collection. While his output was not prolific, his poems have been included in many poetry anthologies.^[6][7][8] His early death placed him with Michael Dransfield, another short lived poet of the era.^[9][10][11]

Australian poet Robbie Coburn’s 2019 collection The Other Flesh (UWA Publishing) was dedicated to Buckmaster.

References

1. Wilde, William Henry; Joy W. Hooton; B. G. Andrews (1994). "Buckmaster". The Oxford companion to Australian literature. Oxford University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-19-553381-1.
2. Headon, D. (1978). "The Quick and the Dead: The Breadth of Australia's Poetry in the Last Decade". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 32 (2): 93–119. doi:10.2307/1347090. JSTOR 1347090. S2CID 161328637.
3. Tulip, James (10 June 1972). "Precocious poets". The Bulletin. 094 (4807). Sydney. ISSN 0007-4039. Retrieved 3 November 2021 – via Trove.
4. "Poetry from pestles". The Bulletin. 90 (4620). Sydney. 21 September 1968. ISSN 0007-4039. Retrieved 3 November 2021 – via Trove.
5. Buckmaster, Charles, 1951-1972 (1968), The Great auk, Charles Buckmaster, retrieved 3 November 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. Schwartz, Laurie (5 August 1990). "Death of a poet". Agenda. The Age. p. 1. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
7. Schwartz, Laurie (5 August 1990). "Death of a poet". Agenda. The Age. p. 2. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
8. "Poets rises out of the dark". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 June 1989. p. 124. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
9. Afterman, Allen (December 1973), "The Poetry of Michael Dransfield and Charles Buckmaster", Meanjin Quarterly, 32 (4): 478–481, ISSN 0815-953X
10. Scotney, Fiona (19 December 2014), The New Australian Poets: Networks and the Generation of 68, The University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, retrieved 3 November 2021
11. Dugan, Michael (1990), "Charles Buckmaster: a memoir", Overland (119): 67–73, ISSN 0030-7416