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Biography of Edward Dyson
Edward George Dyson was born in March 1865 at MorrisonsDiggins, near Ballarat in Victoria, and spent much of his early life roving about mining camps and farms. He was the son of a mining engineer who had migrated to Australia in 1852 and as a boy of 9 soon learned to share his father’s love of bushmen and miners. The experiences gained from this time of his life was possibly the inspiration for some of his poetry as an example The Old Whim Horse (whim being a type of windlass which was used to bring up the ore.)
Edward began work at 12 as an assistant to a travelling draper and later worked in a mine. At 19, after a time in a newspaper office, he began writing verse. His brothers, Ambrose and William, both had notable careers in journalism.
Thymes from the Mines (1896) was Edward Dyson’s first volume of poems. It contains many poems that have appeared continually in collections of the best Australian poetry including The Old Whim Horse, The Emu of Whroo and To The Men Of The Mines.
Dyson continued to write of miners, bushmen and life in Melbourne factories until his death at 76 in 1931. He was, because of his remarkable output, one of the most successful freelance journalists. ..
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