Graeme Dixon (original) (raw)

Graeme Dixon is a Noongar poet. He was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1955. His mother is a Noongar from Katanning and his father an English migrant orphan who grew up at Fairbridge Farm. He is a member of the Stolen Generation; he was taken from his family at the age of three and spent several years at Sister Kate's. Between the ages of ten and fourteen years he lived in a Salvation Army boys' home. From the age of sixteen he spent nine years in Fremantle Prison. During that time he began to write poetry.