Barcroft Boake
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Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (March 26, 1866 – found dead May 10, 1892) was an Australian poet.
Born in Sydney, Boake worked as a surveyor and a boundary rider in New South Wales and Queensland, but is best remembered for his poetry, a volume of which was published five years after his death. A sufferer of bipolar disorder, he is believed to have committed suicide. His body was found hanging by the neck eight days after he disappeared on May 2, 1892, from a stockwhip at Middle Harbour in Sydney.
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- Where the Dead Men Lie: and Other Poems (1897)
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