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Early life

Truebridge was born in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1882, the eldest of six children of William Molish Truebridge, compositor, and his wife Irene, née Greenslade. After an early marriage and divorce Truebridge worked his way around Australia and New Zealand for the next decade as fruit-picker, gold fossicker, music teacher, and masseur. During this time he began publishing some poetry in the pages of ''

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Writing career

By 1934 Truebridge had settled in Brisbane and started writing prolifically, publishing his first collection that same year. In 1939 he won the C. J. Dennis memorial prize for "The Miracle", a long philosophical poem. Then, in 1940 he, along with

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founded ''Meanjin Papers'' - still published today as '' Meanjin'' magazine. He married for a second time in 1939, moved to Sydney and eventually settled in Perth, Western Australia. His second marriage broke down in 1950 and he died, in Perth, in 1952.

Poetry collections

* ''Plays and Flower Verses for Youth'' (1934) * ''Oh, Marjorie Ann'' (1936) * ''"Spud" - Everybodys' Dawg'' (1936) * ''Beyond the Claw : Poems'' (1943)

References

Australian poets 1882 births 1955 deaths People from Carlton, Victoria Writers from Melbourne {{Australia-writer-stub