Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon

About

Gordon was a South Australian horse jockey and poet whose verse ballads — action poems of riding, danger, and stoic endurance — made him the first Australian poet to achieve international recognition. 'The Sick Stockrider' and 'How We Beat the Favourite' capture the masculine stoicism of colonial Australia with genuine literary power. Gordon shot himself the day after his last book was published; he became a romantic figure and his statue stands in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.