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Posted by nellibell49 on July 21, 2008
FROM CATHY AT UQ , WE have the information below regarding Basil and his Crime.
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 4, 2008
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Posted by nellibell49 on June 11, 2008
Crown Street East, Wollongong, NSW
Contributed by Wayne Hill, Jun 15, 2005 . Total records = 172.
PETER KNOX AT THE REMEMBRANCE WALL IN WHICH ARE EMBEDDED HEADSTONES DISCOVERED WHEN THEY WERE DIGGING FOR EXTENSIONS TO ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE RESTAURANT. PETER AKA IZZY HAS INCLUDED IN HIS ANTHOLOGY , ” EARLY ILLAWARRA POETRY - A SELECTION ” A POEM WHICH REFERS TO THE ORGINAL CEMETERY.
THE GRAVEYARD ON THE BEACH AT WOLLONGONG.
Right away over the mountain !
Right away into the vale !
Where brooklet and streamlet and fountain
Unite o’er the Dead in a wail.
The Dead ! Why, where are they sleeping ?
Close by a fountain, you say.
Where the willows are bending and weeping
O’er Man’s ever-perishing clay.
No. Out on the desolate shore.
Down in a bend by the sea,
Where the waves in monotony roar,
And the seagulls are hateful to me.
In the shifting and mystical sand,
Where footsteps of man seldom tread,
Sleep the first pioneers of the Land,
Forgotten , because they are Dead.
Headstones uprooted and prone.
Coffins exposed to the light.
Neglected,forsaken,forlorn.
A fearful and wonderful sight.
And so, in the heat of the vale,
No wonder the waters are stirred,
Lamenting in unison vain.
The Dead on the beach disinterred.
CHMD
Illawarra Mercury June 17th, 1879
This poem was already bemoaning the loss of and disrespect towards this CEMETERY ON THE BEACH back in 1879. It took the 20th century to build an Entertainment Centre on top of it. The poem is contained in the anthology edited by PETER KNOX and available by contacting him on 0414 627 125 or pbk918@mac.com
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Posted by nellibell49 on April 23, 2008
There are many gaps in Melinda’s Story. If anyone can enlighten us on any of the details, we would be grateful ( or words to that effect). Peter.
Peter Knox began his primary school education at Old Guildford Public School, New South Wales (NSW) and completed it at Yennora Public School, NSW. He attended Chester Hill High School, NSW and attained the NSW Intermediate Certificate in 1964 (the final year it was handed out). Though he stayed at high school the following year with the hope of attaining the (then) new School Certificate, a social revolution intervened and he dropped out before sitting the exam.
Through the rest of the 1960s, until the late 1980s, Knox was a professional entertainer/musician, embracing contemporary electric music in its various forms. During that time he played bass, sang and wrote songs and dialogue for showbands The 69ERS and The Zarsoff Brothers, as well as playing bass in numerous other bands (see The Who’s Who of Australian Rock).
Knox completed a correspondence course in short story writing in the late 1970s, which led to some publications in various journals (including the Nation Review and Van Ikin’s Enigma and Science Fiction magazines). In 1990, he completed a tertiary bridging course at the University of Wollongong, which allowed him to matriculate to that institution. He completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts with Honours in 1994, with a double major in creative writing and English studies. While working full-time in the community development and welfare fields (and continuing to play music on the weekends) Knox completed a Masters with Honours in English Studies at Wollongong in 2000. His thesis was titled Once Upon a Place: Writing the Illawarra. Knox began PhD research on nineteenth-century Australian writer Melinda Kendall in 2004. He also wrote the non-fiction work The Errant Apostrophe : The Linguistic Pedant’s Companion, published in 1994 by the University of Wollongong Writers’ Group
In a daring move , Peter is about to turn 59 years of age and become a fulltime student as he completes his PhD research into the life of MELINDA KENDALL and returns to the shimmering world of the Wandering Minstrel.
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I am also seeking poetry and prose from Regional Australia with a particular interest in works of 19th Century - many of which, as with Melinda’s work, might be in danger of disappearing before ever being truly acknowledged. A verse, an essay, a few lines you have found in a box of family papers or an old newspaper or journal- none of these is too small or too little known to be of interest and worthy of being preserved and contributing to the Literary History of Regional Australia and her people.
Yrs Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite.
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