Where Australia’s most iconic bush poet, A.B. Paterson, finds “kindly voices” to greet the outback wanderer, on a peaceful river-strewn plain, Lionel Fogarty finds “blood in the waters” and “cut open” bellies filled with stones. This chapter aims to examine the shifting representations and evocations of violence across four decades of Fogarty’s poetry. While his involvement with the Australian Black Panther movement in the 1970s is a strong influence in his earlier ‘guerrilla’ poetry, Fogarty’s reflection in the 1990s that he wanted readers “to walk away not with a tear on their face, not with an angry hatred,” reflects a shift in attitude and focus on more insidious forms of violence in his later work. The chapter analyses violence as reflected, refracted, and articulated in Fogarty’s poetry, located not only on the colonial frontier but in domestic and institutional spaces: in the home and in the prison cell. The chapter makes a significant argument that violence resounds not only through the content but also through the form of Fogarty’s verse.