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Thread #125267   Message #2774835
Posted By: Charley Noble
27-Nov-09 - 08:36 AM
Thread Name: Edwin J. Brady (old sailor-poet from OZ)
Subject: RE: Edwin J. Brady (old sailor-poet from OZ)
Artful Codger-

The National Library of Australia is, indeed, a great source information on-line. But it's The Internet Archive where I found the copy of The Ways of Many Waters (1909) to initially transcribe the poems above, and then using my hard copy of the 1899 edition to verify the words and punctuation which gets scrambled when text gets scanned. Here's the link: click here for book!
There's another book of Brady poetry, The Wardens of the Sea (1933), which I believe has more nautical poems but I can't find a table of contents on-line.

Brady does appear to be a keen observer of the harbor scene. So far, however, there is no proof in any biographical information I've found, including a Ph.D dissertation, that he actually went to sea. Certainly he does have a strong empathy with the sailor and the stevedore, and he is an excellent poet.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble