VERSE

 

                   From Trimingham manuscript 1839 (possibly MacNamara's hand writing) NSW State Library

Almost every literate person seems to have been a poet in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and convicts were no exception. Unfortunately, much, though not all,  of that verse has been lost.

 

Mark Gregory’s Frank the Poet site at https://frankthepoet.blogspot.com/2011/01/songs.html

 

Austlit database https://www.austlit.edu.au (search on ‘convict’ or by author, if known)