Who is Edwin James Brady

Edwin James Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 July 1952) was an Australian journalist and poet.

Personal life

From Irish parents, Brady was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney, Australia. Among his school friends was Christopher Brennan and Roderic Quinn.He worked as a wharf clerk, a farmer, and journalist, and edited both rural and city newspapers.

His political leanings were as a confirmed socialist, and secretary of the first Socialist League of Australia, in Sydney, 1890. It was suggested that Brady and fellow poet Henry Lawson contemplated with becoming 'New Australians' at the 1893 New Australia settlement in Paraguay, away from the influences of capitalism.

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  • The 'bulletin' Stairs
    The Mecca of Bohemian men
    Was Archibald's untidy den.
    Firm-footed near the portals there
    Uprose, as now, a spacious stair ...
  • The Great Grey Water
    Now two have met, now two have met,
    Who may not meet againâ??
    Two grains of sand, two blades of grass,
    Two threads within the skeinâ?? ...
  • Vive Anarchy
    With the lifting of the curtain,
    Distance, dim, but grimly certain,
    Breaks my vision of a city, populous and great,
    To my senses, sorrow-sated, ...
  • Shadows
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  • The Wardens Of The Seas
    Like star points in the ether to guide a homing soul
    Towards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,
    Across and o'er the oceans, on all the coasts they stand
    Tall seneschals of commerce, High Wardens of the Strand -- ...
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Mamo_: as the decade closes thanking messrs stephan mitkin, jonathan worthington, rich hickey, ryan dahl, albert graf, scott sauyet, edwin brady, ben muschko, james coplien, matthias felleisen, vadim zaytsev, diarmuid pigott & curt doolittle for inspiration & cognitive burden reduction
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