List of poets from Oceania

This is a list of poets from Oceania.
Australia
Banjo Paterson, wrote the poem "Waltzing Matilda"; died in 1941

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse;"Oodgeroo Noonuccal." Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Vol. 27. Gale, 2007 d. 1993

Les Murray, got the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and was on the shortlist for the International Griffin Poetry Prize; d. 2019 

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New Zealand
Rowley Habib, got (the award) Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship; d. 2016

Samoa
Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia, known for poem Kidnapped (about the loss of traditional Samoan knowledge), and poetry Patches of the Rainbow (published in the Samoa Observer);Retrieved 17 November 2009 born 1951

Other countries in Oceania, has famous poets.

Related pages
List of poets from North America

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