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Australian Poems You NEED TO KNOW

Edited by Jamie Grant Foreword by Phillip Adams

hardiegrant books -LONDON Convict and Stockrider

A Convict's Tour to Hell Francis Macnamara ('Frank the Poet') 16 The Beautiful Squatter Charles Harpur 22 Taking the Census Charles R Thatcher 23 The Sick Stockrider 25

The Red Page

My Other Chinee Cook 30 Bell-birds 32 Are You the Cove? Joseph Furphy ('Tom Collins') 34 How McDougal Topped the Score Thomas E Spencer 35 The Wail of the Waiter 38 Where the Pelican Builds Mary Hannay Foott 40 Catching the Coach Alfred T Chandler ('Spinifex') 41 Narcissus and Some Tadpoles Victor J Daley 44

6 i Contents Gundagai to Ironbark

Nine Miles from Gundagai Jack Moses 48 The Duke of Buccleuch JA Philp 49 How We Drove the Trotter WTGoodge 50 Our Ancient Ruin 'Crupper D' 52 The Brucedale Scandal 53 Since the Country Carried Sheep Harry Morant ('The Breaker') 56 The Man from Ironbark AB Paterson (The Banjo') 58 The Old Whimrhorse 60 Where the Dead Men Lie Barcroft Boake 62 Bernard O'Dowd , 64 The Stockman's Cheque EW Hornung 65 The Bullocky's Love-episode AF York 67 Bastard and Bushranger

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The Bastard from the Bush Anonymous 70 When your Pants Begin to Go 72 The Fisher 74 The Mystery Man 'NQ' 75 Emus Mary Fullerton 76 The Death of Ben Hall Will H Ogilvie 77 The Coachman's Yarn EJ Brady 80 Fire in the Heavens, and Fire Along the Hills 83 The Orange Tree John Shaw Neilsen 84 Dummy Bridge CJ Dennis 86 Morning Hugh McCrae 90

(I Contents Drought, Dusk and War

Said Hanrahan PJ Hartigan ('John O'Brien') 94 The Markets Recollected in Tranquillity Frank Wilmot ('Furnley Maurice') 97 Sea Music WJ Turner 104 Dusk in the Domain Dorothea Mackellar 106 Kangaroo DH Lawrence 107 Women Are not Gentlemen Harley Matthews 110 Day's End Lesbia Harford 115 The ]ester in the Trench LeonGellert 116 On Having Grown Old Ernest G Moll 117 Country Story

South Country 120 Football Field: Evening JAR McKellar 121 Country Places AD Hope 122 They'll Tell You About Me Ian Mudie 124 Death of a Whale John Blight 126 A Country Song Douglas Stewart 127 Bullocky Judith Wright 128 The Australian Dream David Campbell 129 The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, A.I.F. John Manifold 131 Song Cycle of the Moon-Bone Wonguri-Mandjigai People, translated by Ronald M Berndt 133 Because James McAuley 140 A Curse on Herod Amy Witting 142 A Simple Story Gwen Harwood 144

10 I Contents Melbourne and Sydney

The Cliff David Rowbotham 148 Lament for St Maria Goretti Francis Webb 150 Stroke Vincent Buckley 152 All Friends Together RA Simpson 158 Affair of the Heart Peter Porter 160 Life-Cycle Bruce Dawe 162 Defeat Evan Jones 164 Bequest Philip Martin 165 Balmoral Summer '66 Vivian Smith 166 Early Discoveries David Malouf 167 Threnody for Patrick White Barry Humphries 169 Melbourne Chris Wallace-Crabbe 170 At the baths Graeme Kinross Smith 171 A Lifetime Devoted to Literature Judith Rodriguez 173

in. Beyond Sprawl

The Quality of Sprawl Les Murray 176 Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sahatini Clive James 178 Smalltown memorials Geoff Page 181 The old colonist Andrew Taylor 182 The old rifle Geoffrey Lehmann 184 The Blizzard Roger McDonald 186 Anyone Home? John Tranter 188 In Departing Light Robert Gray 192 Sestina on taking a bus into Perth past the Narrows Bridge Hal Colebatch 197 Kidding Myself in Kuta, Bali: A Pantoum Alan Smith 198 Learning to Write Gary Catalano 199 Profiles of My Father Rhyll McMaster 200 Barbecue Peter Kocan 202 My Grandmother's Ghost Kate Jennings 203 Ballade for Alan Gould Alan Wearne 204 Pliers Alan Gould 206 On Seeing the First Flasher Vicki Ravmond 208

12 ! Contents The Generation of XYZ

Ode to Karl Marx John Forbes 212 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Stephen Edgar 213 The Members of the Orchestra Kevin Hart 215 The Ferris Wheel Jennifer Harrison 216 The Domesticity of Giraffes Judith Beveridge 218 When I consider Gig Ryan 219 Sky Writing Sarah Day 220 Life Kathleen Stewart 221 The Big Goanna Philip Hodgins '222 Holy Sydney Harry Cummins 224 Kristallnacht Jemal Sharah 226 After Wendy Cope Stephen Mclnerney 227

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