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Cover of Old Bush Songs (1905), Banjo Paterson's seminal collection of bush ballads. The bush ballad, bush song, or bush poem is a style of poetry and folk music that depicts the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush. The typical bush ballad employs a straightforward rhyme structure to narrate a story, often one of action and ...
60 Classic Australian Poems is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008. [ 1 ] The collection contains 60 poems from a variety of sources, along with a commentary on each from the editor.
"The Evening Journal" (Adelaide) called the poem "...the best piece Mr. Gordon ever wrote..." [2] after its publication in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes.The Oxford History of Australian Literature stated that "The ballad of the dying stockman, with its creed of mateship, its laconic acceptance in true bush style of whatever life and death may offer, led Marcus Clarke to assert that in ...
A Collection of Australian Bush Verse Peter Antill-Rose, 1989 [9] Family Ties : Australian Poems of the Family edited by Jennifer Strauss, Oxford University Press, 1998 [10] Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney, Five Mile Press, 2001 [11]
Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944 [4] Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus and Robertson, 1957 [5] Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2002 [6]
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (26 March 1866 – 2 May 1892) was an Australian stockman and poet who wrote primarily within the bush poetry tradition. He was active for only a few years before his suicide at the age of 26.
A Vision Splendid: The Complete Poetry of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Angus and Robertson, 1990 [15] A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, 1991 [16] The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss, Penguin, 1993 [17] Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney, Five Mile Press, 2001 [18]
The compilation consists of 53 works of prose and verse from writers across Australia's literary landscape, and features 31 narrators delivering a mix of folk ballads and bush poetry from the 1800s through to 20th century prose, and lyrical songs reflecting on life in their country.