Micheal Dransfield 1969
Michael Dransfield. The obscure, the forgotten, the little-known Shakespeare of Australian poetry, a tall thin drug-addicted genius of the quill who carved golden poems on dark, windy rain-swept nights that would touch solemn audiences long after his pathetic death aged twenty-four.
Or was he...?

Within his sacred scrawlings are graven imagery, the depths of human spirit and suffering, the pain of love and death, need, want, psychology of addiction and sweet sensual emotive expressions. Dransfield lived a life far removed, yet inseparable and conjuctive with the contrived creative portrait of his still-life poetic excursions, romantically embellished landscapes of the mind and experientially-tinged written portraits.
Micheal Dransfield 1973