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Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses (1902) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. [1] It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1902, and features the poems "Rio Grande's Last Race", "Mulga Bill's Bicycle", "Saltbush Bill's Game Cock" and "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight".
Rio Grande's Last Race is a racing poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in the London Sketch magazine on 16 December 1896. [ 1 ] It was later published as the title poem for Paterson's second poetry collection, Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses , in 1902.
Paterson as a baby with his nanny, Wiradjuri girl Fanny Hopkins, mid-1860s Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, [1] related to the future first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton. [3]
The category contains poems written by the Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson (1864–1941) Poetry portal; Australia portal;
A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Bush Ballads, Poems, Stories and Journalism edited by Clement Semmler, 1992 [21] Banjo Paterson : His Poetry and Prose edited by Richard Hall, 1993 [22] The Bush Poems of A. B. (Banjo) Paterson edited by Jack Thompson, FinePoets, 2008 [23] 60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2009 [24]
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson.It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "The Man from Ironbark".
On its original publication in Australia The Sunday Times noted "As to the contests of Saltbush Bill, J.P., it is to be regretted that Banjo himself was not responsible for the selection, as he would certainly have omitted quite a number of verses — fugitive lines, poor jokes in rhyme, and inconsequentialities that, although well enough in the columns of a newspaper, would be better out of a ...
"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 26 April 1890, and was published by Angus & Robertson in October 1895, with other poems by Paterson, in The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses.