in 2001. He was vice-president of the South Australian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, and was closely involved with the organisation of the first three Festival of Arts Writers' Weeks (1960, 1962, 1964), with his first volume of poetry launched at the second Writers' Week in 1962. He was at the inaugural meeting of Friendly Street Poets, and remained an active member and contributor to the society's annual anthologies, the Friendly Street Reader. The Satura Prize is a poetry prize funded by a bequest from his estate and awarded by Friendly Streets. Bray's first book of poetry was published in 1962. Honours, recognition and legacy Bray was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1979, and is said, by his younger brother, Dr Robert Stow Bray, to have refused a knighthood. He described his views as "æsthetic - traditional; social - emancipated; political - fluctuating" and his philosophies as "sceptical, some tendencies to Platonism". The John Bray Poetry Award, awarded biennially since 1986 as part of the Adelaide Festival, was so named to honour his distinguished services to Australian poetry. The John Jefferson Bray Memorial in Hurtle Square, Adelaide, was commissioned by the Adelaide City Council in 1994. Bray died on 26 June 1995 in Adelaide. There is a bronze bust of Bray, sculpted by local sculptor John Dowie, in the State Library. Selected publications Bray's publications reflected his interests, which he listed as "poetry, history, classics". As author, these included: Poems (Melbourne, Cheshire Press, 1962) Poems 1961-1971 (Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1972) Poems 1972-1979 (1979) Bay of Salamis and other Poems (1986) Satura: Selected Poetry and Prose (1988) Seventy Seven (Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1990) He co-edited No. 7 Friendly Street Poetry Reader (1983) with Jan Owen. He wrote two plays: Papinian (performed 1955) The Women of Troy (performed 1966) He also made contributions to: Well and Truly Tried (1982), a festschrift for Sir Richard Eggleston Adelaide Law School Centenary Essays (1983) Australian Law Journal See also Judiciary of Australia References Australian Who's Who (see also similar Australia, British, and international biographical publications), Richard Carruthers-Żurowski,The Bray Family of England, Canada, and Australia(1986), deposited in the libraries of the Hampshire Family History Society and the South Australian Society for Genealogy and Heraldry. Further reading External links 1912 births 1995 deaths John Jefferson Chancellors of the University of Adelaide Chief Justices of South Australia Companions of the Order of