Gordon, Adam Lindsay

Gordon, Adam Lindsay (1833-70), Australian poet.

Adam Lindsay Gordon was born in the Azores.

At the age of twenty he settled in Australia and became first a mounted policeman and later a wandering horse breaker.

He loved the outdoor life. He was a daring horse rider and also skilled at boxing and the first poetry he wrote was about sport.

He began to write a new kind of poem called the 'bush ballad' and published two books, Sea Spray And Smoke Drift (1867) and Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

He killed himself the day after the second book was published.

See Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems