This is a list of poets from Oceania.

Australia

• Banjo Paterson, wrote the poem "Waltzing Matilda"; died in 1941

• Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse;^[1] d. 1993

• Les Murray, got the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and was on the shortlist for the International Griffin Poetry Prize; d. 2019

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New Zealand

• Rowley Habib, got (the award) Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship; d. 2016

Samoa

• Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia, known for poem Kidnapped (about the loss of traditional Samoan knowledge), and poetry Patches of the Rainbow (published in the Samoa Observer);^[2] born 1951

Other countries in Oceania, has famous poets.

Related pages

• List of poets from North America

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