- Title
- 'We rose to meet the sun' David Campbell, war hero and bard of the Monaro uplands
- Creator
- Ramsland, John
- Relation
- Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) Review Vol. 12, Issue 1, p. 37-50
- Publisher
- Independent Scholars Association of Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- In this most typical of poems David Campbell compares the busy noisy world of Canberra as Australia's capital city to the surrounding quiet hills of the Monaro where the natural world dominates with 'the sweet song of a bird'. The poet sits alone on an autumn day in the hills enjoying the peaceful solitude. A lone but not lonely figure in the pristine landscape he meditates on the physical and metaphysical pollution of the human world of the national capital. Nevertheless, it is a world in which the poet had strong literary associations. Together with distinguished Australian poets A D Hope, Rosemary Dobson and R F Brissenden, local Monaro farmer David Campbell was a vital part of the celebrated Canberra poetry cultural push and boom of the 1970s.2 As a highly regarded Australian poet of his generation he ranks comfortably with Judith Wright, Roland Robinson, Gwen Harwood, Douglas Stewart (a close personal friend with whom he shared a love of trout fishing in the remote streams of the Monaro uplands), Bruce Beaver and Kenneth Mackenzie.
- Subject
- World War II (1939-1945); Campbell, David; short stories; publishing; Australian literature
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341489
- Identifier
- uon:28750
- Identifier
- ISSN:1444-0881
- Language
- eng
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