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The poems that have come to be favourites of Australians have, through the years, been sifted by our emotions and have left a chord of recognition in our hearts. They strike truly, not only through fine words and sentiments, but because they rebind us to our beginnings and appeal to our sense of adventure, of humour and humanity or our love of the land.Our poetic tradition is close to the people — in rollicking ballads, in the rough hewn language of the country and often with a broad strain of humour. Many of the classics are by past heroes of Australian verse and prose — such as Henry Lawson, A.B. "Banjo" Paterson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall. Some, by the poets of the recent past and today — like Judith Wright, A.D. Hope, Kenneth Slessor, Rosemary Dobson and Roland Robinson — have moved into the same area of recognition.This presentation of favourite poems will stir the hazy index of first lines that we carry in our heads . . .There was movement at the station . . .Out on the wastes of the Never Never . . .Our Andy's gone with cattle now . . .South of my days' circle . . .. . . and complete these half loved, half remembered poems that have permeated our lives and beco

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Author

Penguin Random House

Publisher

Viking O'Neil

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670900312

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25