Rod Moran Explained
Rod Moran (born 1952) is an Australian poet and journalist.
Moran lives in Western Australia. He has written poetry, and books, as well as being a regular contributor to The West Australian newspaper on military history.
He has also won awards for his poetry.[1]
He has written books challenging significant historical issues about the Forrest River massacre, in particular the role and reliability of Ernest Gribble.
He has also engaged in an extended debate with historians about the issues.
He is also experienced in extensive oral history work from a project in Rockingham, Western Australia.
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections
- Book: Moran, Rod . Illustrated by Melody Hampton . High rise sniper . 1981 . Artlook Books . 978-0-86445-057-9--<.
- Book: Moran, Rod . 1 . Against the era : poems . 1988 . Fremantle Arts Centre Press . 978-0-949206-28-2-->.
- Book: Moran, Rod . 1 . Listening to the train passing . 1994 . Platypus Press . 978-1-875321-31-5-->. [2]
- Book: Moran, Rod . 1 . The paradoxes of water : selected and new poems 1970-2005 . 2005 . Salt Publishing . 978-1-84471-108-6-->. [3] [4]
- List of poems
| width=25% | Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|
| Memoir of birds | 1996 | Moran, Rod . May 1996 . Memoir of birds . Quadrant . 40 . 5 . 30. | |
| The Dean Martin rave | 1996 | Moran, Rod . May 1996 . The Dean Martin rave . Quadrant . 40 . 5 . 31. | |
| A homage to the elephant | 2003 | Moran, Rod . Jul–Aug 2003 . A homage to the elephant . Quadrant . 47 . 7–8 [398] . 57. | |
| Kimberley II | 2016 | Moran, Rod . Jan-Feb 2016 . Kimberley II . Quadrant . 60 . 1-2 . 111. | |
| Style | 2016 | Moran, Rod . Jan-Feb 2016 . Style . Quadrant . 60 . 1-2 . 111. | |
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Non-fiction
- Book: Moran, Rod . Rockingham District Historical Society . Synoptic catalogue for the Rockingham Oral History Archive . 1992 . 1 June 2015-->.
- Book: Moran, Rod . 1 . Icon of the North : the legend of Tom Gray . 1995 . Access Press . 978-0-86445-091-3-->.
- Book: Moran, Rod . 1 . . Massacre myth : an investigation into allegations concerning the mass murder of Aborigines at Forrest River, 1926 . 1999 . Access Press . 978-0-86445-124-8-->.
- Book: Moran, Rod . 1 . Sex, maiming and murder : seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend E.R.B. Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness to the truth . 2002 . Access Press . 978-0-86445-157-6-->.
- Moran, Rod . 1 . A forensic footnote to the Forrest River debate . Quadrant . 2016 . 60 . 7-8 . 73-74.
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- Bibliography notes
External links
- http://andrewlansdown.com/fellow-writers/rod-moran/
References
Notes and References
- https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20060722140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36486/20060723-0000/www.liswa.wa.gov.au/pbagallery05/2.html 2005 WA Premiers Award for poetry
- News: Poets deserve a wider audience . . 71 . 22,129 . Australian Capital Territory, Australia . 18 November 1995 . 22 March 2019 . 63 . National Library of Australia.
- McLaren, Greg . Things left unsaid: some recent poetry from Salt Publishing.(Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems)(The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems 1970-2005)(Book review) . Southerly . 2006-03-22 . English Association . 66 . 1 . 171(8) . 0038-3732.
- Leves, Kerry . The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005.(Brief article)(Book review) . Overland . 2006-06-22 . O.L. Society Ltd . 185 . 89(1) . 0030-7416.
