Shaw Neilson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shaw Neilson

Early twentieth century Australian poet

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1872

Place of Birth: Penola, South Australia, Australia

Date of Death: 12-May-1942

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet.
Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne.
Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.