James Devaney

James Devaney

James Martin Devaney (31 May 1890 - 14 August 1976) was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist.

Biography

Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Devaney attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, entering the Marist Brothers juniorate in 1904. ["Australian Poets and Their Works", by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996 ] He took his vows in 1915. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the "Brisbane Courier" (renamed Courier-Mail after 1933). [ M. D. O'Hagan, 'Devaney, James Martin (1890 - 1976)', "Australian Dictionary of Biography", Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 623-624.]

Works

* "Fabian: Poems", Melbourne: Lothian, 1923
* "The Currency Lass : a Tale of the Convict Days", Sydney: Cornstalk, 1927
* "The Vanished Tribes", Sydney: Cornstalk, 1929
* "The Girl Oona, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks", Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Co., 1929
* "The Witch-Doctor, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks", Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
* "I-rinka the Messenger, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks", Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
* "Earth Kindred", Melbourne: Frank Wilmot, Coles Library, 1931
* "Debutantes: a poem", Hawthorn East, Victoria: The Hawthorn Press, (1939?)
* "Dark Road", Hawthorn East, Victoria: Hawthorn Press, 1938,
* "Where the Wind Goes", Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1939
* "Shaw Neilson", Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1944
* "Washdirt: a novel of old Bendigo", Melbourne: Georgian House, 1946
* "Poems", Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1950

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