Francis Brabazon

the long version

"Francis Brabazon (1907-1984) is one of Australia's unacclaimed poets. This book explores his passage from farm boy in rural Victoria through the Melbourne music, art and intellectual scene of the thirties. He joined a select group of painters who were attempting to forge a new modernist style of Australian art. By the early forties he was exhibiting his paintings alongside works by Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Arthur Boyd. Of this group of artists Brabazon was the most driven by a spiritual quest to discover the source of beauty in Art. His quest finally led him through the Sufi movement to a contemporary spiritual master, Meher Baba, whom he served as both poet and disciple while living in India during the sixties. His work includes the book-length epic poem 'Stay with God' and two collections of English ghazals in the tradition of the Persian Master poet Hafiz."--DWBH flyer.