John Shaw Neilson was born in 1872, at Penola, South Australia. For most of his life, he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, or, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Like his father, Neilson wrote poems. These, chiefly with the help of A. G. Stephens , were collected in a number of publications. Neilson died in 1942.
Bibliography
- Old Granny Sullivan (1916)
- Heart of Spring (1919)
- Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923)
- New Poems (1927)
- Collected Poems (1934)
- Beauty Imposes (1938)
- Unpublished Poems of Shaw Neilson (1947)
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