# Charles Buckmaster

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{{Short description|Australian poet}}
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'''Charles Buckmaster''' (1951&ndash;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](/source/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](/source/University_of_Queensland_Press) collection. While his output was not prolific, his poems have been included in many poetry [anthologies](/source/anthology).<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](/source/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](/source/Robbie_Coburn)’s 2019 collection ''The Other Flesh'' ([UWA Publishing](/source/UWA_Publishing))  was dedicated to Buckmaster.

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