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THE ADAM LINDSAY GORDON
COMMEMORATIVE COMMITTEE INC.

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Welcome to the website of The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative
Committee Inc.

Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70), Australia's acclaimed national poet was many things in his time.  A mounted trooper, champion jockey, horse breaker and Member of Parliament.  He was the first to capture Australia and her people in the words of poetry, paving the way for Banjo Paterson, Lawson and William Ogilvie to name just a few to create poetry that was uniquely Australian.  In his travels, he lived in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia - no mean feat at a time when travel was on horseback or by sailing ship, and his words spread by word of mouth across the nation.

** Tour of Brighton General Cemetery -
Adam Lindsay Gordon: His Life and Beyond **

18 November 2007

On warm spring Sunday saw 28 people attend the inaugural tour of the Brighton General Cemetery.  The tour features 11 subjects covering the life and legacy of Australia's national poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon. Repeats of the tour will be held in 2008.  The tour was filmed by Ian Adams and we hope to make available copies for sale.

For more information about the tour click here.

(above) Tour guide Vivienne Sellers dressed in period costume

** Melbourne Cup **

6 November 2007

This is what The Poet Gordon said on the race that stops the nation:

There’s a lull in the tumult on yonder hill,

And the clamour has grown less loud,

Though the Babel of tongues is never still,

With the presence of such a crowd.

The bell has rung. With their riders up

At the starting post they muster,

The racers stripp’d for the 'Melbourne Cup',

All gloss and polish and lustre ;

And the course is seen, with its emerald sheen,

By the bright spring-tide renew’d,

Like a ribbon of green, stretched out between

The ranks of the multitude.

Read the entire poem Visions In The Smoke here.

** The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee
Annual General Meeting **

14 October 2007

Our first AGM was held on Saturday 13 October at 2:00pm at Coleraine, Victoria.  The following persons were elected to the Committee for the year ending 30 June 2008:

President: Allan Childs

Vice-President: Vivienne Sellers

Secretary: John W. Adams

Treasurer: Travis M. Sellers

Ordinary Committee Members: Geoff Dening and Lorraine Day

We welcome our newest member, Lorraine Day for her successful election to the Committee.  Lorraine is an avid researcher of Gordon as well as an experienced publisher and media officer.

** The Adam Lindsay Gordon Grave Restoration Appeal **

8 September 2007