{{Short description|Australian poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2015}} '''Charles Buckmaster''' (1951–1972) was an Australian poet.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wilde |first1=William Henry |title=The Oxford companion to Australian literature |last2=Joy W. Hooton |last3=B. G. Andrews |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-19-553381-1 |page=128 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000wild/page/128/mode/2up?q=Buckmaster |chapter=Buckmaster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Headon |first=D. |year=1978 |title=The Quick and the Dead: The Breadth of Australia's Poetry in the Last Decade |journal=Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=93–119 |doi=10.2307/1347090|jstor=1347090 |s2cid=161328637 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tulip |first=James |date=10 Jun 1972 |title=Precocious poets |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1630394538 |volume=094 |issue=4807 |issn=0007-4039 |access-date=3 November 2021 |via=Trove |journal=The Bulletin |place=Sydney}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=21 Sep 1968 |title=Poetry from pestles |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-690556005 |journal=The Bulletin |location=Sydney |volume=90 |issn=0007-4039 |access-date=3 November 2021 |via=Trove |number=4620}}</ref> He was involved in the publication of ''The Great Auk''.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Buckmaster, Charles, 1951-1972 | title=The Great auk | publication-date=1968 | publisher=Charles Buckmaster | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27583546 | access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>
During his lifetime, he published two volumes of poetry, both reprinted after his death by the University of Queensland Press collection. While his output was not prolific, his poems have been included in many poetry anthologies.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Laurie |date=1990-08-05 |title=Death of a poet |pages=1 |department=Agenda |work=The Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88209681/death-of-a-poet/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Laurie |date=1990-08-05 |title=Death of a poet |pages=2 |department=Agenda |work=The Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88210141/death-of-a-poet/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1989-06-11 |title=Poets rises out of the dark |pages=124 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88209850/poets-rises-out-of-the-dark/ |access-date=2021-11-02}}</ref> His early death placed him with Michael Dransfield, another short-lived poet of the era.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Afterman, Allen | title=The Poetry of Michael Dransfield and Charles Buckmaster | journal=Meanjin Quarterly | publication-date=December 1973 | volume=32 | issue=4 | pages=478–481 | issn=0815-953X}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Scotney, Fiona | title=The New Australian Poets: Networks and the Generation of 68 | publication-date=2014-12-19 | publisher=The University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies and Art History | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192510735 | access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Dugan, Michael | title=Charles Buckmaster: a memoir | journal=Overland | publication-date=1990 | issue=119 | pages=67–73 | issn=0030-7416}}</ref>
Australian poet Robbie Coburn’s 2019 collection ''The Other Flesh'' (UWA Publishing) was dedicated to Buckmaster.
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