Shaw Neilson

John Shaw Neilson was born on the 22nd of February 1872, at Penola, South Australia. For most of his life, he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, or, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne.

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South Australia - Melbourne

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Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. These, chiefly with the help of A. G. Stephens, were collected in a number of publications including The Bulletin Neilson died in 1942.

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A. G. Stephens - The Bulletin

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