Andree Hayward
W.A. POETS FROM THE PAST
His Poems
A Penitential Hymn
The Forrest Doctrine
The Heatwave
The Age of Gold
The Cue Brewery
Two Bob In
His Books
Along
the Road to Cue
(35 poems 53 pages)
Contains the following titles:
A Modern Elijah
Alec's Gone With Samples
Along the Greenough Flats
Along the Road to Cue
Bacchus Worship
Belinda
Beneath the Southern Cross
Evolution
He Would Not Drink
In Memoriam
Our Pioneers
Recipe For a Mining Expert
Recrimination & Requiem
Room For The Leper
Sunset and Moonshine
The Age of Jarrah
The Assembly
The Captain Who Wanted a Shave
The Great Australian Adjective
The Land We Left Behind
The Other Side
The Riot Where No One Was Hurt
The Sneer of Septimus Burt
The Song of The Stamps
The York Volunteers
To a Camel
To The Bulletin
Wanted at Perth
Westralia - 2 Sonnets
Westralia's Welcome to Calvert
What's In a Name?
When Dicky Haynes Gets Bolder
Who
Xmas - A Retrospect
Charles Wiltens Andree Hayward (Viator)Born: 21 July 1866 at Court Huntington, Herefordshire, England
Died: 10 August 1950 Cremorne, Sydney
Biography:
Andree Hayward was the second son of Johnson Frederick Hayward (1822-1912), gentleman, and his wife Ellen Margaret, née Litchfield. Hayward Snr had migrated to South Australia in 1847, and had prospered on the northern sheep runs; he returned to England in 1864, revisiting the colony in 1869.
Andrée was educated at Rugby School and matriculated to Exeter College, Oxford, in 1885 (B.A., 1888). He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1890. After working in South Africa he moved to the Western Australian goldfields in 1894.
Hayward was briefly at Cue before starting as a reporter on the Geraldton Express; he was sub-editor in 1896-98 under John Drew.
In 1897 his Along the Road to Cue; and Other Verses was published under the pseudonym 'Viator'. From 1898 he edited the Murchison Advocate at Cue, from 1901-02 the Kalgoorlie Sun and in 1902-04 the Perth Sunday Times.
In 1905 he returned to the Express for twelve months before rejoining the Sunday Times under his close friend J. E. Webb's editorship.
Hayward had married Elizabeth Marie Dunn in 1900.
In 1922 he moved to Sydney and joined the Bulletin, where he wrote light satirical verse and topical articles under the pseudonyms 'T the R' (Thomas the Rhymer), 'Midford', 'Oxmead', 'Victor', 'Iford' and 'Pipards'.
Hayward was a 'tall, willowy and soft spoken' man. He was a leading figure in the group of Western Australian goldfield writers whom Alfred George Stephens praised for their vigorous, versatile and 'manly' verse. Hayward had read widely in the classics but admired contemporary writers such as Calverley of Punch, J. K. Stephen, Kipling and Bret Harte. He had read some Australian writers in England, and after migrating he became a devotee of Henry Lawson, 'Banjo' Paterson, Edward George Dyson and other Bulletin contributors. After the nostalgia for England of his early work, Hayward's editorials, articles and poems soon supported the populist, patriotic strain in Australian literature and life. He saw verse as 'an essential ingredient of journalism' and espoused Labor on the goldfields, as in 'The Sneer of Septimus Burt' (1895), in which he ridicules the attorney-general's opposition to votes for miners:
'Tis a voice that has rung aforetime, since the days when the world was new,
Wherever the sweating thousands have toiled for the favoured few,
'Tis the horsehair wig that is speaking to the roofing of cabbage tree,
Stiff broadcloth and speckless linen to moleskin and dungaree,
The puny quill to the pickaxe, the gown to the clay-stained shirt,
The man of words to the worker—the voice of Septimus Burt.Hayward relished the goldfields' comradeship and vigorous language and his writing reflects respect for those prospectors and miners who survive, with a sense of humour, their harsh surroundings. Coupled with this social concern is an Anglo-Saxon superiority and a fear, common then, of an influx of 'alien bands … from Asian lands'. His influence on literary policies and journalism in the West deserves comparison with A. G. Stephens's role in Sydney: both significantly affected the development of a distinctively Australian literature.
All up, Hayward wrote some 2900 poems covering a broad range of topics although much of his poetry is satirical political comment. This genre, along with many humorous poems were spread throughout his working career. In his Sydney years (1922 onward) he was very prolific, most of his poetry from that time being published in the Sydney Bulletin - almost every episode had at least two of his poems. (See the listing via the "His poems" link)
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