JOURNAL

POETRY + LITERATURE

The Daylight is Dying

by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson The daylight is dying Away in the west, The wild birds are flying In silence to rest; In leafage and frondage Whe...

POETRY + LITERATURE

Poem | From the Forests

From the Forests by Henry Kendall Introductory verses for The Sydney University Review, 1881. WHERE in a green, moist, myrtle dellThe torrent ...

POETRY + LITERATURE

The Bush, My Lover

A love poem to the bush by Will Ogilvie, poet, horseman, jackaroo and drover.

POETRY + LITERATURE

A poet laureate for Australia

Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?

POETRY + LITERATURE

Ten books you need to read by First Nation’s writers

Everyone knows Tara June Winch’s The Yield and Bruce Pascoe’s Black Emu but we wanted to delve a little deeper to find some fabulous reads along th...

POETRY + LITERATURE

Summer

An early bush poem about Summer by Louis Lavater

Art

Mothertongues

Is it possible to describe the complexity and absurdity of motherhood? Mothertongues creatively responds to the question: what kind of genre and fo...

poetry & literature

On the Night Train

Bush bard Henry Lawson’s tribute to ‘Mother Nature’ illustrates a snatch of early Australian scenery and a love of the landscape.

Australia

The Ripping Tree – Nikki Gemmell

The Ripping Tree is an historical thriller, a tale of survival in colonial Australia. It’s about a young woman finding a way to escape the claustro...

Australia

A May night on the Mountains

The inspiration behind our Signature Candle ‘Southern Sky’, Henry Lawson’s poem ‘A May Night on the Mountains’ is a tribute to the Milky Way and th...

Australian made candles

Southern Sky

As the sky fades from purple to black and a million stars appear, the crisp night air descends and sitting by a smoky campfire in the Australian b...

A yarn with…

Melanie McCollin-Walker

Southern Wild Co heads to Hobart city to visit artist Melanie McCollin-Walker in her bright New York-style studio to learn more about her beautiful...