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Anne McCosker is an author and poet, born in Rabaul, New Guinea. Her childhood was spent mostly in Queensland, Australia. She first left the South Pacific to train at the Royal Ballet School, London. After a short career as a dancer, she worked for a time in a wide variety of jobs, then read History at Bedford College, University of London, obtaining her BA Honours degree in 1970.

Anne's
Published Works are listed.

The titles of her six books of poetry are given below, with links to selected poems from each book.

Masked Eden, a History of the Australians in New Guinea, is described in this web.



Extract Material - taken from a variety of sources - includes much from Anne McCosker's work.

Empire & Commonwealth
contains material from both Anne's poetry and prose dealing with various aspects of their identity and history.
Fall of Rabaul, Retreat, and Aftermath  contain material relating to the Japanese invasion, January 1942.
Montevideo Maru and Montevideo Maru Questions contain extensive extracts from the chapter in Masked Eden dealing with this ship.
Selected Bibliography  is from Masked Eden but includes too selected titles published since then.


Published Works

Prose

Masked Eden
New Guinea Waits


Poetry

Sea Watch
 Camp Fires
 Potter's Clay
 Leaves
 Beyond the Sunset
  Witch Doctor

 

Woman where are you going?

A selection of poems from the above books showing Anne's long term scepticism of the Feminist movement. Links to other relevant
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Extract Material
from  MASKED EDEN


Fall of Rabaul, 
 Retreat,
Aftermath
Montevideo  Maru

Montevideo Maru Questions
Selected Bibliography


British Empire & Commonwealth

Poetry by Anne McCosker.

Australia's first battle as a sovereign nation
South Pacific Cross Currents
 
by David Behrens.  (Extracts)
World War  I  Veterans
(who were captured and killed
after the Fall of Rabaul).
Rabaul, my Home
Trafalgar

Return to Rabaul 2007

 


Poetry since 2003

Dedication Service,
Australian War Memorial, London

Dresden

 

 

Articles
by Anne McCosker
 

Rombin.

What about Rabaul?

Noel Barry.

Margaret Reeson

Jan Roberts

Contemporary Poets write

Links
Dorset Echo
Papua New Guinea Association of Australia
Far Eastern Prisoners of War Association
Children of Far Eastern Prisoners of War Association