Poets Drive

Take The Poets Drive, a self-guiding tour inspired by Gunnedah's iconic landmarks and local heroes of Australian verse. Along this scenic discovery tour around town, spot 12 poems mounted on plaques at various locations and get to know Gunnedah through poetry and verse that explores the essence and challenges of bush life. Start at the Visitors Centre, head to Woolshed Reserve in historical Maitland Street, and find 'Johnsons Antidote', by AB (Banjo) Paterson. Weave back past historic buildings of bygone days, sites and significant places of cultural interest and stop to find 'The Last of His Tribe' - 'Said Hanrahan' - 'The Old Bush School' - 'Lights Of The Cobb & Co'. works of Henry Kendall, John Obrien and Henry Lawson. In Stock Road, The Wallaby Trap, a historical hunting ground of the Gunn-e-darr tribe, here you will find Les Murray's 'Gunn-e-darr'. In Anzac Park, nestled in a bush garden at the base of Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Statue is 'My Country'. Continue over the Railway Bridge into Barber Street for poems 'Country Shopping' and 'Rain From Nowhere' and then downtown for 'The Man From Snowy River' and 'Gunnedah'. Finish at Brock's Court, Wolseley Park. Find (3) bronze murals depicting iconic Australian poems on the outer walls of The Lyrical Loos! Inside the 'Loo' you can hear, and listen to piped poetry playing in the Loo.