Poets Drive

Discover Gunnedah through the beauty of Australian verse on The Poets Drive, a self-guided tour celebrating iconic landmarks and legendary poets. This scenic journey invites you to explore the town's heritage while uncovering 12 poems displayed on plaques at significant locations—each capturing the essence and challenges of bush life. Begin your adventure at the Visitor Information Centre, then wander to Woolshed Reserve on historic Maitland Street to find AB 'Banjo' Paterson's Johnson's Antidote. Continue past charming heritage buildings and cultural sites to encounter works like The Last of His Tribe, Said Hanrahan, The Old Bush School, and Lights of the Cobb & Co by Henry Kendall, John O'Brien, and Henry Lawson. Follow Stock Road to The Wallaby Trap, a traditional hunting ground of the Gunn-e-darr tribe, where Les Murray's Gunn-e-darr awaits. In Anzac Park, nestled beneath the Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Statue, discover her iconic My Country. Cross the Railway Bridge into Barber Street for Country Shopping and Rain From Nowhere, then head downtown for The Man From Snowy River and Gunnedah. Finish at Brock's Court in Wolseley Park, home to three bronze murals depicting classic poems on the walls of the whimsical Lyrical Loos, where a selection of poems plays inside!