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Anne McCosker
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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.