As RDA’s poetry is distributed among many books and unpublished works, here is an alphabetical list of his poems (gradually accumulating, now at 51). A reference is provided to the volume in which each poem appears (see Writings for full volume pdfs), but a direct pdf of each poem is also provided.
- “After decades rife with science strife…” [with peeking cricket drawing] (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “After Two Months At Blackburn” (in Club 48) [PDF]
- “The ancient profs who never die…” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “At any given time between five and ten…” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Aubrey Hart – Museum Shop Man” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “Bluey Morgan’s Mate” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Brumby” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Bushflies” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “The Butcher Bird and His Wife” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Charles Walker – Professor of Frogs’ Lives” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “Claude Hibbard – Hibbie – Fossil Man” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “The Coober Pedy Pub” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Dingo” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “The East Pasture” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Edwin Mackey” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Eternity for any man…” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Evolution of Sterile Castes in the Social Insects: Kin Selection or Parental Manipulation?” (an academically peer-reviewed scientific statement in poetic form (!) in The Florida Entomologist vol. 57 issue 1 (1974), p.32.) [PDF]
- “Generation Gap – The Worth of Experience” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “How can I leave thee?…” [Ode to Blackburn] (in Club 48) [PDF]
- “I stopped beside the great osage corner post…” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Illinois Farmer” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “In an untended graveyard in central Illinois…” [Ode to Big Bluestem, with background story] (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “In the Outback” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “It is surely time for the adaptive structures…” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “Janba’s Deed” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “The Karrie Tree Limerick” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “The Kumarina Pub” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Kybe Hartweg – Curator of Reptiles” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “Lifetimes Are Not Measured In Years” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “The Lion’s Den” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Major was a bay road horse…” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Memory of memory…” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “The New Chum and the Desert Water Bag” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “New Museum Folk Song” (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “The Old Bloke” [song, original from 1968: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “The Old Bloke (reprise: 1998)” [song: with background story, lyrics, and melody line] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Old Tom the Townsville saddler…” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Only the Trees” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Out of the Heart of an Old Farmer” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “A Place for Sam” [with drawing] (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “The Publican at Eromanga” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Reality and the Human Social Enterprise” (unpublished) [PDF]
- “The Red Spearhead” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “Reverse Reciprocity” [in memoriam William D. Hamilton, with background story] (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “Some Later Australian Opinions” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “The Song and Story of The Clarksburg Cat” [with background story] (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “The Trees in My Woods” (unpublished) [PDF]
- “Tom Groomes” (in Pop’s Story) [PDF]
- “University Administrations” [for Billy E. Frye] (in Notes on the Faculty) [PDF]
- “A Valley in New South Wales” (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
- “Wally’s eyes were an umber sparkle…” [the subject of this poem was painted by RDA, and is the book’s cover image] (in White Man’s Fire) [PDF]
