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kill81601: I see old shadows creep
Along the sleep stream
-Leon Gellert
TheCardiganKid: "The Brolga or Australian crane
Holds dancing orgies on the plain:
And students of the Russian Ballet
Have crept in crowds across the mallee
Far beyond the desert grasses
To where the Brolga holds its classes."
-Leon Gellert, 'The Brolga'
war_poets: 22 October 1914 Leon Gellert as part of the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Battalion embarks on the troopship Ascanius for Egypt.
war_poets: 22 August 1914 Leon Gellert enlists in the Australian Imperial Force and is posted as a corporal to South Australia's 10th Battalion.
OzanneMichael: Leon Gellert.. Anzac Cove.
TroveUFOBot: Another Australian newspaper article about UFOs! 23 Apr 1950, 'Leon Gellert Recounts A CONVERSATION PIECE':
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TroveUFOBot: Another Australian newspaper article about UFOs! 23 Apr 1950, 'Leon Gellert Recounts A CONVERSATION PIECE':
war_poets: 22 October 1914 Leon Gellert as part of the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Battalion embarks on the troopship Ascanius for Egypt.
war_poets: 22 August 1914 Leon Gellert enlists in the Australian Imperial Force and is posted as a corporal to South Australia's 10th Battalion.
TroveUFOBot: Another Australian newspaper article about UFOs! 23 Apr 1950, 'Leon Gellert Recounts A CONVERSATION PIECE':
SattarASattar: Pandiculation
"I had hoped to deal, here, with two other minor emotional luxuries that have been hitherto hidden in obscurity. They are oscitation (yawning) and pandiculation (stretching) which may be practiced separately or together."
LEON GELLERT, "THE…
ampmob: I had hoped to deal, here, with two other minor emotional luxuries that have been hitherto hidden in obscurity. They are oscitation (yawning) and pandiculation (stretching) which may be practiced separately or together.
Leon Gellert, "The Delights of Sneezing," 1949
mperegrineb: My 1918 edition of Leon Gellert’s Songs of a Campaign, with its speckled pages and musty old book smell, is one of my favourites.
Leon Gellert was one of the first and biggest inspirations for Where the Line Breaks. The original Australian soldier poet.
WarPoetsAssn: “Anzac Cove” by Leon Gellert.
An Australian teacher, Gellert landed at Gallipoli, 25 April,
1915, in the first wave of the invasion, and suffered
shrapnel, dysentery and blood poisoning. Invalided out,
he was repatriated in 1916 and later became a journalist.
war_poets: 22 October 1914 Leon Gellert as part of the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Battalion embarks on the troopship Ascanius for Egypt.
war_poets: 22 August 1914 Leon Gellert enlists in the Australian Imperial Force and is posted as a corporal to South Australia's 10th Battalion.
wherrypilgrim: Australian writer Leon Gellert born 17 May 1892. He fought at Gallipoli and later wrote of what it meant to bring the war home:
"None sees my sadness. No one understands
How I must touch her hair with bloody hands"
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DSFineBooks: Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1937. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers with Margaret Preston design (small…
DSFineBooks: How awesome is this cover? Awesome level is high, in my opinion. Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number eleven. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1925.…
comicdialogues: wow ok so i went by leon, then gellert, then crow, then sen, then basil then judas then carnac and then basil again
AndrewFaulkner9: Eric was the subject of Leon Gellert's poem `One Who Died: In Memory Of E.W.T.S.' It ended thus:
"And this, and this the end so pitiless!
The man we knew! The man we knew so long!
To die-be dead-not move, and this was he!
I rose and oiled my rifle musingly."
war_poets: 22 October 1914 Leon Gellert as part of the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Battalion embarks on the troopship Ascanius for Egypt.
Darcy1968: More information available at my blog.
Darcy1968: Does anyone know about the life and work of the Australian literary figure Leon Gellert (1892-1977)?
wherrypilgrim: Leon Gellert born 17 May 1892. He fought at Gallipoli and later wrote of what it meant to bring the war home with him:
"Yes, I have slain, and taken moving life
From bodies. Yea! And laughed upon the taking"
beatthatflight: The Attack at Dawn, Leon Gellert ‘At every cost,’ they said, ‘it must be done.’
They told us in the early afternoon.
We sit and wait the coming of the sun
We sit in groups, — grey groups that watch the moon.
We stretch our legs and murmur half in sleep
A…
teaandnerdery: Remembering that for many, war did not end when they left the battlefields. "None sees my sadness. No one understands/How I must touch her hair with bloody hands." (Leon Gellert, "The Husband", 1917)
