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John Shaw Neilson | |
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| Born | John Shaw Neilson 22 February 1872 Penola, South Australia, Australia |
| Died | 12 May 1942 (aged 70) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1896–1938 |
| Genre | Lyric poetry |
| Notable works | The Orange Tree |
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.