Anne McCosker
Web site
Anne McCosker is an author and poet, born
in Rabaul, New Guinea. Her childhood was spent mostly in Queensland,
Australia. She first left the South Pacific to train at the Royal Ballet
School, London. After a short career as a dancer, she worked for a time in a
wide variety of jobs, then read History at Bedford College, University of
London, obtaining her BA Honours degree in 1970.
The contents page provides a
guide to Anne's web-site. The various items and topics are accessed from
here. The chief of these are her published
works both poetry and prose. Pages cover each such work and extracts
from them.
Anne's family, with its Australian and British Empire background, was
closely linked with both world wars, and there are several sections,
accessed from extracts,
Empire &
Commonwealth, and articles, relating to
this.
In particular, Fall of Rabaul, Retreat, and Aftermath
contain material relating to the Japanese invasion, January 1942, the
Fall of Rabaul and its terrible consequences. Anne's father, Stan
McCosker, was one of the very few men to escape from Rabaul. Montevideo Maru and Montevideo Maru Questions contain
extensive extracts from the chapter in Anne's book
Masked Eden, a History
of the Australians in New Guinea, dealing with this
ship.
Additionally, related matters of more general scope appear under
Empire &
Commonwealth, Articles,
Poetry since 2003,
and
Contemporary Poets.