Australian poetry since 1788
By: edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781742241098; 9781742245669; 9781742243412
Subjects: Australian & Oceanian; Australian poetry; FICTION; POETRY; General
Description: The first of its kind, this landmark poetry anthology contains the work of Australia's major poets as well as lesser-known but equally affecting writers of Australian poetry since 1788. Ranging from concrete to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naive, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse, this work also features translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems. With pieces from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Two Aboriginal Songs; Anonymous; Van Diemen's Land; Botany Bay; The Wild Colonial Boy; Barnett Levy ; Botany Bay Courtship; Francis McNamara ("Frank the Poet") c. 1810-1861+; A Convict's Lament on the Death of Captain Logan; Charles Harpur 1813-1868; Dawn and Sunrise in the Snowy Mountains; A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest; Lost in the Bush; A Coast View; A Basket of Summer Fruit; A Flight of Wild Ducks; Anonymous; The Old Bullock Dray; Charles Thatcher 1831-1878; Gold-fields Girls; The Queer Ways of Australia; Anonymous.; title: The Old Keg of RumWilliam Perrie 19th century; The Old Bark Hut; Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870; from Ye Wearie Wayfarer; The Sick Stock Rider; From the Wreck; Henry Kendall 1839-1882; Prefatory Sonnets; Bellbirds; The Last of His Tribe; Charlie "Bowyang" Yorke ; Bullocky Bill; Joseph Furphy ("Tom Collins") 1843-1912; The Schoolhouse on the Plain; Ada Cambridge 1844-1926; from A Dream of Venice; Despair; Influence; The Physical Conscience; A Promise; Stringy-bark and Green-hide; Anonymous; The Banks of the Condamine; Thomas E. Spencer 1845-1910; How McDougal Topped the Score.; title: Marcus Clarke 1846-1881from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems; Mary Hannay Foott 1846-1918; Where the Pelican Builds; New Country; Alexander Montgomery 1847-1922; A Curious Reminiscence; John Farrell 1851-1904; My Sundowner; Victor Daley 1858-1905; Dreams; Anacreon; Alice Werner 1859-1935; Bannerman of the Dandenong; Jack Moses 1861-1945; Click Go the Shears; W.T. Goodge 1862-1909; How We Drove the Trotter; Who Stole the Ponies?; A Bad Break!; The Shearers' Cook; Mulligan's Shanty; A Matter of Knack; The Spider by the Gwydir; A.B. Paterson ("The Banjo") 1864-1941.; title: The Man from Snowy RiverClancy of the Overflow; The Travelling Post Office; Saltbush Bill; How Gilbert Died; A Bush Christening; Waltzing Matilda; Santa Claus in the Bush; The Boss's Wife; Mary Gilmore 1865-1962; Eve Song; Dedicatory; from Swans at Night; The Hunter of the Black; The Myall in Prison; The Waradgery Tribe; Nurse No Long Grief; The Brucedale Scandal; Nationality; Harry Morant ("The Breaker") 1865-1902; West by North Again; Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now?; Barcroft Boake 1866-1892; At Devlin's Siding; Where the Dead Men Lie; Henry Lawson 1867-1922; Andy's Gone with Cattle.; title: The Roaring DaysBallad of the Drover; The Teams; Middleton's Rouseabout; The Captain of the Push; Sweeney; The Lights of Cobb & Co; The Slip Rails and the Spur; The Shakedown on the Floor; Anonymous (possibly Henry Lawson); The Bastard from the Bush; Mary Fullerton ("E") 1868-1946; Emus; E.J. Brady 1869-1952; The Whaler's Pig; Will Ogilvie 1869-1963; A Bush Night; A Wildflower by the Way; Solitude; The Township Lights; Harry Morant; The Death of Ben Hall; Christopher Brennan 1870-1932; Aubade; The grand cortège ... ; Let us go down, the long dead night is done; The years that go to make me man. The Wanderer.