Australian Poetry Hall of Fame - Guyra

Australian Poetry Hall of Fame - Guyra Founded in March 2020 by Thundercloud Repairian, The Australian Poetry Hall of Fame preserves and celebrates Australian. history.

language, songlines, poetry and prose in an archive accessible by all Australians in perpetuity.

10/09/2026

Talking in Bed of Phillip Larkin read by Thundercloud

10/09/2026

Infant Sorrow by William Blake read by Thundercloud Repairian

10/09/2026

Song: to Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas Richard Lovelace read by Thundercloud

10/09/2026

Big gratitude to the Guyra Rural Fire Brigade for the Defibrillators in Bradley Street Guyra

09/09/2026

New England Call: Old Timer Going home to on the train from 1945 read by Thundercloud Repairian

09/09/2026

Shepherdess by Norman Cameron ​ read by Thundercloud Repairian ​ ​
Shepherdess

All day my sheep have mingled with yours. They strayed
Into your valley seeking a change of ground.
Held and bemused with what they and I had found,
Pastures and wonders, heedless I delayed.

Now it is late. The tracks leading home are steep.
The stars and landmarks in your country are strange
How can I take my sheep back over the range?
Shepherdess, show me now where I may sleep.

Norman Cameron

09/09/2026

Heaven.
What do "fish say" from heaven? a Rupert Brooke "Fish Say" read by Thundercloud Repairian

Rupert Brooke
Heaven
FISH (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat’ry noon)
Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
This life cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were!
One may not doubt that, somehow, Good
Shall come of Water and of Mud;
And, sure, the reverent eye must see
A Purpose in Liquidity.
We darkly know, by Faith we cry,
The future is not Wholly Dry.
Mud unto mud! — Death eddies near —
Not here the appointed End, not here!
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time.
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
Who swam ere rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous, omnipotent, and kind;
And under that Almighty Fin,
The littlest fish may enter in.
Oh! never fly conceals a hook,
Fish say, in the Eternal Brook,
But more than mundane weeds are there,
And mud, celestially fair;
Fat caterpillars drift around,
And Paradisal grubs are found;
Unfading moths, immortal flies,
And the worm that never dies.
And in that Heaven of all their wish,
There shall be no more land, say fish.

08/09/2026

Who was Jindyworobak poet Ian Mudie and his poem "This Land"

08/09/2026

The World is too much with Us William Wordsworth read by Thundercloud

08/09/2026

My Dearest Dust an Epitaph to Sir William Dyer a monument to his death by Katherine, Lady Dyer or Lady Catherine Dyer read by Thundercloud Repairian

My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day
Afford thy drowzy patience leave to stay
One hower longer: so that we might either
Sate up, or gone to bedd together?
But since thy finisht labor hath possest
Thy weary limbs with early rest,
Enjoy it sweetly: and thy widdowe bride
Shall soone repose her by thy slumbring side.
Whose business, now, is only to prepare
My nightly dress, and call to prayre:
Mine eyes wax heavy and ye day growes old.
The dew falls thick, my beloved growes cold.
Draw, draw ye closed curtaynes: and make room:
My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come.

Notes:
Epitaph on monument erected in 1641 by Lady Catherine Dyer to her husband Sir William Dyer in Colmworth Church, Bedfordshire.

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