Rod Moran

Rod Moran (born 1952) is an Australian poet and journalist.

Moran lives in Western Australia. He has written poetry, and books, as well as being a regular contributor to The West Australian newspaper on military history.

He has also won awards for his poetry.^[1]

He has written books challenging significant historical issues about the Forrest River massacre, in particular the role and reliability of Ernest Gribble.^[2]

He has also engaged in an extended debate with historians about the issues.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

He is also experienced in extensive oral history work from a project in Rockingham, Western Australia.^[8][9][10]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Moran, Rod (1981). High rise sniper. Illustrated by Melody Hampton. Artlook Books.
• — (1994). Listening to the train passing. Platypus Press.^[a]
• — (2005). The paradoxes of water : selected and new poems 1970-2005. Salt Publishing.^[b][c]

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Memoir of birds	1996	Moran, Rod (May 1996). "Memoir of birds". Quadrant. 40 (5): 30.
The Dean Martin rave	1996	Moran, Rod (May 1996). "The Dean Martin rave". Quadrant. 40 (5): 31.
A homage to the elephant	2003	Moran, Rod (July–August 2003). "A homage to the elephant". Quadrant. 47 (7–8 [398]): 57.
Kimberley II	2016	Moran, Rod (January–February 2016). "Kimberley II". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 111.
Style	2016	Moran, Rod (January–February 2016). "Style". Quadrant. 60 (1–2): 111.

Non-fiction

• Moran, Rod (1992). Synoptic catalogue for the Rockingham Oral History Archive. Rockingham District Historical Society.
• — (1995). Icon of the North : the legend of Tom Gray. Access Press.
• — (1999). Massacre myth : an investigation into allegations concerning the mass murder of Aborigines at Forrest River, 1926. Foreword by Francis Theodore Page Burt. Access Press.
• — (2002). Sex, maiming and murder : seven case studies into the reliability of Reverend E.R.B. Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a witness to the truth. Access Press.
• — (2016). "A forensic footnote to the Forrest River debate". Quadrant. 60 (7–8): 73–74.

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Bibliography notes

1. "Poets deserve a wider audience". The Canberra Times. Vol. 71, no. 22, 129. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 18 November 1995. p. 63. Retrieved 22 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
2. McLaren, Greg (22 March 2006), "Things left unsaid: some recent poetry from Salt Publishing.(Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems)(The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems 1970-2005)(Book review)", Southerly, 66 (1), English Association: 171(8), ISSN 0038-3732
3. Leves, Kerry (22 June 2006), "The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005.(Brief article)(Book review)", Overland (185), O.L. Society Ltd: 89(1), ISSN 0030-7416