Anna Wickham: the memory of a moment

The poet Anna Wickham (1884-1947) drew her pen-name from the landscape of her Queensland childhood and youth.

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Jean Devanny, Sugar heaven, 1936

Jean Devanny, Sugar heaven, 1936

Imagination: how people have imagined Queensland

As essayist and literary critic Nettie Palmer put it, in 1927, ‘Queensland is notoriously huge: most parts of it are still unknown, except to the people who live in them’.

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Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004

Albert Street
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 January 2004
7 October 2010
7 October 2010

Location

Albert Street
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
7 October 2010

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s

Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004. From Your guide to the Albert Street Literary Trail, 2004. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Nick Earls, Zig Zag Street

Book cover Nick Earls, Zig Zag Street, Sydney, Anchor, 1996 and street sign Zig Zag Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Venero Armanno, Romeo of the underworld

Book cover Venero Armanno, Romeo of the underworld, Sydney, Picador, 1994 and Venero Armanno street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

David Malouf, Johnno

Book cover David Malouf, Johnno, Penguin edition, 1975 and David Malouf street plaque in Albert Street, Brisbane photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Andrew McGahan, 1988

Book cover Andrew McGahan, 1988, St Leonard's, Allen & Unwin, 1995 and street plaque, Albert Street, Brisbane, photographed by Kris Anderson. Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Collection of Lara Cain-Gray

Brisbane River and Moreton Bay: Thomas Welsby

Writer Thomas Welsby fell in love with Moreton Bay from his first sighting of it at age nineteen.  Thus began, too, his love of the water, of sailing and of fishing and from that time accordin

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Vance and Nettie Palmer

'Queensland is notoriously huge: most parts of it are still unknown, except to the people who live in them', found Nettie Palmer in 'Southern Queensland: an emerging picture' in 1927.

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