Australia has only a relatively recent history, and a poetic tradition that largely only developed at the end of the Victorian era. None the less some powerful poetry has been written by poets since then.
- Bruce Dawe - Homecoming
- Bruce Dawe - Weapons Training
- Gwen Harwood - Barn Owl
- Gwen Harwood - In the Park
- Henry Lawson - Up the Country
- Dorothea Mackellar - My Country
- Banjo Paterson - Clancy of the Overflow
- Banjo Paterson - Waltzing Matilda
- Banjo Paterson - The Man from Snowy River
- Judith Wright - Woman to Man