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A Treasury of favourite Australian poems. |
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Melbourne : Currey O'Neil, 1982. |
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132 p. : ill., hbk ; 26 cm. |
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Anthologies Poets and poetry Shearers and shearing Drovers and droving Nature stories. Outback Australia
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ISBN: |
0859022242 |
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Contents: A mid-summer noon in the Australian forest / Charles Harpur p9. South of my days / Judith Wright p10. Out back / Henry Lawson p13. Old botany country / Mary Gilmore p15. My country / Dorothea Mackellar p17. The waste land / F.J.H. Letters p19. West of Alice / W.E. (‘Bill’) Harney p22. Where the dead man lie / Barcroft Boake p23. True patriots all / George Carter p25. The last of his tribe / Henry Kendall p26. The Blue Mountains / Henry Lawson p27. Said Hanrahan / P. J. Hartigan (‘John O’Brien’) p28. The man from Snowy River / A. B. (Banjo) Paterson p33. Our corrugated iron tank / Hal Gye (‘James Hackston’) p36. The traveller / C. J. Dennis p38. September in Australia / Henry Kendall p39. Native born / Eve Langley p41. Bell birds / Henry Kendall p42. The teams / Henry Lawson p45. Nine miles from Gundagai / Jack Moses p46. Country towns / Kenneth Slessor p49. Days when we went swimming / Henry Lawson p51. Australia / A. D. Hope p52. I saw the beauty go / Mary Gilmore p54. In a southern garden / Dorothea Mackellar p55. Shearing in the bar / H. P. (‘Duke’) Tritton p57. How M’Dougall topped the score / Thomas E. Spencer p59. The death of Ben Hall / Will H. Ogilvie p62. Condamine Bells / Jack Sorensen p65. Clancy of the overflow / A. B. (Banjo) Paterson p67. Stirrup song / Harry (‘the breaker’) Morant p68. Click go the shears/ Anonymous p71. The bush / James Lister Cuthbertson p72. Andy’s gone with cattle / Henry Lawson p73. When your pants begin to go / Henry Lawson p74. The intro / C. J. Dennis p76. The shearing shed / Henry Lawson p81. Stringy bark and green hide / Anonymous p83. Who’s riding old harlequin now? / Harry (‘the breaker’) Morant p84. White birds / Roland Robinson p86. Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott p87. The sick stockrider / Adam Lindsay Gordon p88. On the night train / Henry Lawson p91. Solitude / Henry Parkes p92. Drought / Will H. Ogilvie p93. Spring on the plains / Dorothea Mackellar p95. Bill Brown / Edward S. Sorenson p96. Around the boree log / P. J. Hartigan (‘John O’Brien’) p97. The fire at Ross’s farm / Henry Lawson p99. Country press / Rosemary Dobson p103. Place names / Douglas Stewart p104. The sundowner / John Shaw Neilson p107. High places / Dorothea Mackellar p109. Bullocky / Judith Wright p111. Waltzing Matilda / A. B. (Banjo) Paterson p112. Independence / Nancy Cato p115. The women of the west / George Essex Evans p117. The lights of Cobb and co / Henry Lawson p118. The men who made Australia / Henry Lawson p121. Mulga Bill’s bicycle / A. B. (Banjo) Paterson p122. From the wreck / Adam Lindsey Gordon p124. The Geebung polo club / A. B. (Banjo) Paterson p128. The never-never land / Henry Lawson p129.
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