Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.

This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'."The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished. The astonishment of those who knew the man, and can gauge the capacity of this city [Melbourne] to foster poetic instinct, is that such work was ever produced here at all...

volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Hunting Song by Adam Lindsay Gordon. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 24, 2019. ------ Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer, and politician. In this Weekly Poem he raises a glass "..to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,"