Bruce Dawe was born in Geelong, Victoria. He was an altogether indifferent pupil and, at the age of 16 he left school and was employed for shortlived periods in diverse occupations. In 1953, however, he finished an adult matriculation course at night school and, in 1954, entered the University of Melbourne. He remained at Melbourne for only a year, but it was there that he met Philip Martin, whom Dawe acknowledges as the greatest influence in his literary concerns, and we remained a friend, and an advisor in his developing poetic skills after he left his studies. He became involved with Melbourne University Magazine MUM, Compass, and Farrago also, at this time, and published the ‘Joey Cassidy’ stories in Farrago during that time.

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