Frank the Poet : Bicentennial ebook
Sydney Writers Festival Friday, 20 May 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Gaelic Club Saturday 27 August 2011 8 pm The Convict Gig to Hell Celebrating the work of Frank ‘The Poet’ McNamara (1811 – 1861) Featuring music and spoken word from John Dengate, Colleen Burke, Mark Gregory, Margaret and Bob Fagan, The Mahones, Louise Phelan Plus friends Gaelic Club, 1st Floor, 64 Devonshire St. Surry Hills $15/$10 members/concessions info: (02) 9212 1587 info@gaelicclub.com.au
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Miguel Heatwole Frank The Poet’s Anniversary a presentation of songs, verse, and narrative by Miguel Heatwole 4pm – 6:30pm, Sunday 28th August 2011
Twelfth Biennial Labour History Conference
Saturday 17 September 2011 - 11.00am
Francis MacNamara - A Convict Poet in Australia, presentation by Mark Gregory with John Warner and the Canberra Union Voices choir
A presentation of songs verse and narrative of his life and times (1811-1861)
+ Bright Star Singers
The Loaded Dog
8pm, Sat 11th February, 2012
Annandale Neighbourhood Centre,
Back Hall,
79 Johnston St, Annandale.
Enquiries & bookings - Sandra (02) 9358 4886
The Banished Now From My Native Shore draws on some of Australia's finest roots musicians to compose and record songs around the verses of convict poet Francis McNamara, AKA Frank The Poet.
Compilation CD launched in Adelaide 1 June 2012
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The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney Historian Rowan Cahill will be speaking about Frank the Poet. Rowan is co-editor with Terry Irving of the book Radical Sydney.
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Macquarie University
Friday 27 May 2011
HDR conference
Blackshield Room in the Law Building
Mark Gregory "Frank the Poet: Bicentenary of a Radical"
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Ilawarra Folk Club
Friday 5 August 2011
City Diggers Wollongong
Folk Club Concert - Theme Concert - FRANK THE POET -
Mark Gregory will be bringing Frank the Poet’s life to life on Friday August 5th at the Illawarra Folk Club’s August Concert at the Wollongong City Diggers Club. He will be ably abetted by Gulgong author and singer/songwriter Bob Campbell and local singers Alan Musgrove, Bob McInnes and John Broomhall.
Also on the programme will be a new local group AMP (Anne Lehman, Mark Holder-Keeping and Perla Fefey). Members $10 Non-Members $15
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| Russell Hannah, John Broomhall, Bob Campbell, Mark Gregory, Alan Musgrave, Bob McInnes |
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Miguel Heatwole Frank The Poet’s Anniversary a presentation of songs, verse, and narrative by Miguel Heatwole 4pm – 6:30pm, Sunday 28th August 2011
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Manning Clark Centre ANUTwelfth Biennial Labour History Conference
Saturday 17 September 2011 - 11.00am
Francis MacNamara - A Convict Poet in Australia, presentation by Mark Gregory with John Warner and the Canberra Union Voices choir
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Miguel Heatwole presents "Frank the Poet"+ Bright Star Singers
The Loaded Dog
8pm, Sat 11th February, 2012
Annandale Neighbourhood Centre,
Back Hall,
79 Johnston St, Annandale.
Enquiries & bookings - Sandra (02) 9358 4886
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The Banished Now From My Native Shore draws on some of Australia's finest roots musicians to compose and record songs around the verses of convict poet Francis McNamara, AKA Frank The Poet.
Compilation CD launched in Adelaide 1 June 2012
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August 2012 marked the 151st anniversary of the death of Francis MacNamara, better known in convict Australia as Frank the Poet. According to one of Australia's leading contemporary poets, Les Murray, MacNamara's epic work A Convict's Tour to Hell should be placed right at the beginning of English literature in Australia.
Frank’s attitude to the colonial authorities, embodied in this now famous poem, can also be gauged from the punishments he received. Lashed 590 times, he was sent to solitary confinement, to the treadmill, and worked on chain gangs. All through his incarceration, Frank continued to entertain his fellow convicts with his rebellious verse.
ABC Hindsight | Frank the Poet: A Convict's Tour to Hell
(Broadcast 5 and 12 August 2012, 20 January 2013)
(Broadcast 5 and 12 August 2012, 20 January 2013)
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August 2012 marked the 151st anniversary of the death of Francis MacNamara, better known in convict Australia as Frank the Poet. According to one of Australia's leading contemporary poets, Les Murray, MacNamara's epic work A Convict's Tour to Hell should be placed right at the beginning of English literature in Australia.
Frank’s attitude to the colonial authorities, embodied in this now famous poem, can also be gauged from the punishments he received. Lashed 590 times, he was sent to solitary confinement, to the treadmill, and worked on chain gangs. All through his incarceration, Frank continued to entertain his fellow convicts with his rebellious verse.
