A Study Guide for Bruce Dawe's "Drifters"
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Drifters
Bruce Dawe
1999
Introduction
Drifters
is from the book No Fixed Address, Bruce Dawe’s first book of poetry. Over the years, Dawe has become one of Australia’s most popular poets. He is credited with bringing about a cultural shift in Australian poetry. Australians had previously considered their language to be a slight alteration of the English spoken in Britain, much as Americans did in the mid-1800s, but Dawe, like Mark Twain, showed with his writing that a particularly Australian idiom had developed, separate from Britain, spoken in a way that only people in his country spoke. Dawe combined his mastery of Australian English with his deep understanding of people on the outskirts of society and a sense of rhythm that owed more to common discourse than traditional poetic forms, and the result was a surprisingly direct style that captured the public imagination.
Author Biography
Donald Bruce Dawe was born in 1930 in Geelong, Victoria, which is just outside of one of Australia’s largest cities, Melbourne. He did not care much for school and was poor at his studies, leaving school at the age of sixteen and working as a gardener and a postman. In his twenties, he finished school through a series of equivalency courses, and in 1954 he entered the University of Melbourne. Although his career at the University was brief—just less than a year—Dawe made a lasting impression on Australian poetry through his association with other writers who went on to be counted as the greatest names in Australian literature, including Vincent Buckley, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, R.A. Simpson and Andrew Taylor. This was an educated