Bruce Beaver

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Bruce Beaver (born 1928) is an Australian poet, born in Manly. He worked at a number of jobs, as a cow farmer, in radio, as a wages clerk, a surveyor's labourer, fruit-picker, proof-reader and journalist, before deciding to write full-time. From 1958 to 1962, he lived in New Zealand and Norfolk Island.

Beaver wrote his first poem in response to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and continued to write even while working as a labourer. Thanks to his marriage, he was able to become a full-time writer. Even though he suffered from bipolar disorder, Beaver was able to continue being productive even close to his death in 2004.

[edit] Bibliography

• Under the Bridge (1961)
• Letters to Live Poets (1969)
• Odes and Days (1975)
• Death's Directives (1978)
• The Long Game and other poems (2005)