THE MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE THE MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE EDITED BY KEN GOODWIN AND ALAN LAWSON UNIVERSilY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF BRUCE BENNETT • GERRY BOSTOCK • SNEJA GUNEW BRIAN KIERNAN • SUSAN McKERNAN • THOMAS SHAPCOTT KEN STEWART • JENNIFER STRAUSS e ELIZABETH WEBBY M MACMILLAN EDUCATION Copyright© this collection Ken Goodwin & Alan Lawson 1990; sectional introductions ascribed authors Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 978-0-333-50159-7 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission First published 1990 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD 107 Moray Street, South Melbourne 3205 6 Clarke Street, Crows Nest 2065 Associated companies and representatives throughout the world National Library of Australia cataloguing in publication data The Macmillan anthology of Australian literature. ISBN 978-0-333-50158-0 ISBN 978-1-349-20665-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20665-0 1. Australian literature. I. Goodwin, K. L. (Kenneth Leslie), 1934- . II. Lawson, Alan, 1948- . III. Bennett, Bruce, 1941- IV. Title: Anthology of Australian literature. A820'.8 Cover painting: The Landing of Captain Cook by William John Hughes, 6 October 1985. © William John Hughes. Set in Linotron 202 Sabon by Graphicraft Typesetters, Hong Kong CONTENTS AcKNOWLEDGEMENTS xix INTRODUCTION 1 Alternative Ways of Seeing 4 Chronological List of Items 6 A Place and People 11 1 James Cook, from An Account of a Round Voyage of the Endeavour in the Year MDCCLXX along the East Coast of Australia compiled by D. Warrington Evans (Brisbane: W. R. Smith & Paterson, 1969) 484-5, 492-4 (20, 28 April1770) 16 2 Mary Gilmore, 'Australia' Selected Verse (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1948) 132-3 17 3 Henry Kingsley, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, from Chapter 18; facsimile reproduction of Chapman & Hall1877 edition, in Henry Kingsley, ed. J. S.D. Mellick (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982) 135-40 18 4 Judith Wright, 'For New England' Collected Poems 1941-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 22-3 22 5 Frederick (Friedrich) Gerstaecker, The Two Convicts, from Chapter 4 (London: Routledge, 1857) 38-9 23 6 Henry Lawson, 'Crime in the Bush' A Camp-fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900, ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney: Lansdowne, 1984) 572-4 24 7 'Steele Rudd' (Arthur Hoey Davis), 'Cranky Jack' On Our Selection, foreword Cecil Hadgraft (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987) 38-47 28 8 Vance Palmer, 'The Hermit' The World of Men (London: Euston Press, 1915) 1-8 33 9 Catherine Helen Spence, Clara Morison, from Volume 2, Chapter 9 Catherine Helen Spence, ed. Helen Thomson, Portable Australian Authors (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987) 277- 80 36 10 Caroline Atkinson, Gowanda, the Veteran's Grant: An Australian Story, from Chapter 5 (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1859) 38-40 39 11 Patrick White, Voss, from Chapter 6 (New York: Viking, 1957) 120-2, 123-5 41 Vl Contents 12 Robin Boyd, 'Pioneers and Arboraphobes' from The Australian Ugliness (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960) 74-7 44 13 George Johnston, My Brother jack, from Chapter 13 (London: Collins, 1964) 283-90 46 14 Thomas Shapcott, from 'The Trees: A Convict Monologue' I, III Begin with Walking, Paperback Poets 11 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1972) 43-4 51 15 Charles Harpur, 'A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest' The Poetical Works, ed. Elizabeth Perkins (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984) 199-200 52 16 Henry Kendall, 'Bell-Birds' Leaves from Australian Forests: Poetical Works of Henry Kendall (Hawthorn, Victoria: Lloyd O'Neil, 1970) 10-11 53 17 Judith Wright, 'Eyes' Phantom Dwelling (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1985) 42 54 18 Vincent Buckley, from 'Golden Builders', I Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982) 111-12 54 19 Murray Bail, 'Home Ownership' Quadrant 24 Uanuary-February 1980) 95-7 55 20 Bruce Dawe, 'Pleasant Sunday Afternoon' Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1987, third edition (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988) 162 60 21 Barry Humphries, 'Days of the Week' The Humour of Barry Humphries, selected John Allen (Sydney: Currency Press, 1984) 83-6 61 22 Patrick White, 'Miss Slattery and her Demon Lover' The Burnt Ones (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964) 206-23 63 B Living in Aboriginal Australia 75 1 From The Djanggawul Song Cycle, translated Ronald M. Berndt Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-eastern Arnhem Land (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1952) Songs 1 and 2, pp. 63-4 80 2 From The Goulburn Island Cycle, translated Ronald M. Berndt Love Songs of Arnhem Land (Melbourne: Nelson, 1976) Songs 3 and 4, pp. 52-3 81 3 From A Wonguri-Mandjigai Song Cycle of the Moon-bone, translated Ronald M. Berndt Oceania 19.1 (1948) 16-50, Song 2 82 4 Jack Davis, from Kullark (Home), Scene 2 Kullark!The Dreamers (Sydney: Currency Press, 1982) 12 83 5 G. F. Moore, 'Yagan' from Diary ofTen Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia (1884), reprinted in Wide Domain: Western Australian Themes and Images, ed. Bruce Bennett and William Grono (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979) 44-5 84 Contents vii 6 Dick Roughsey, 'Faces of White Pipe-day' from Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal (Adelaide: Rigby, 1977) 13-15 85 7 Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, from Chapter 3 Sydney's First Four Years, being a reprint of A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port jackson, introduction and annotations L. F. Fitzhardinge (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1961) 139-43 86 8 Henry Kendall, 'The Last of His Tribe' Poems (Melbourne: George Robertson, 1886) 90-1 90 9 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), 'We are Going' My People, second edition (Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1981) 78 91 10 Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson), from Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1983) 28-33 92 11 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), 'No More Boomerang' My People, second edition (Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1981) 32-3 95 12 Sally Morgan, from 'Daisy Corunna's Story' My Place (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987) 325-32 96 B Hazel McKellar, from Matya-Mundu: A History of the Aboriginal People of South West Queensland ed. Thorn Blake (Cunnamulla: Cunnamulla Australian Native Welfare Association, 1984) 76-9 103 14 Roland Robinson, 'Bees' Altjeringa and Other Aboriginal Poems (Sydney: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1970) 28 105 15 Katharine Susannah Prichard, 'Marlene' Happiness: Selected Short Stories (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967) 110-20 105 16 Jack Davis, from No Sugar, 2.5, 2.6 (Sydney: Currency Press, 1986) 63-8 112 17 Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country, from Chapter 1 (Sydney: Collins, 1975) 9-13 116 18 Archie Weller, 'Johnny Blue' Going Home (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986) 38-43 120 19 Gerry Bostock, from Here Comes the Nigger, 1.2 Meanjin 36.4 (December 1977) 480-7 124 20 Kevin Gilbert, 'Mister Man' People ARE Legends (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1978)34-5 129 21 Jack Davis, 'John Pat' Barungin, Programme for world premiere, 10 February 1988, The Playhouse, Perth 130 vm Contents 22 Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson), 'Song Twenty-Three' The Song-Circle ofJacky and Selected Poems (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1986) 35-6 131 23 Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson), 'Song Thirty' The Song-Circle of jacky and Selected Poems (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1986) 43 132 C Convictism 133 1 Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker, from Chapter 10: 'Wryneck Day' (Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987) 83-8 138 2 Hal Porter, The Tilted Cross, from Chapter 1 (Adelaide: Rigby/Seal Books, 1971) 9-10 141 3 R. D. FitzGerald, 'The Wind at Your Door' Forty Years' Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965) 236-41 142 4 Anon, 'Moreton Bay' The Queensland Centenary Pocket Songbook, collected and arranged by the Federation of Bush Music Groups, Brisbane [John Manifold] (Sydney: Edwards & Shaw, 1959) 9 145 5 Marcus Clarke, His Natural Life, from Book 4, Chapter 7: 'Breaking a Man's Spirit'; facsimile reproduction of 1885 edition in Marcus Clarke, ed. Michael Wilding (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1976) 405-9 146 6 'Tasma' Oessie Couvreur), 'An Old-time Episode in Tasmania' from Coo-ee, ed. Mrs A. Patchett Martin (1891); reprinted in The Australian Short Story before Lawson, ed. Cecil Hadgraft (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986) 208-20 149 7 Bruce Dawe, 'A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love' Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1987, third edition (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988) 74 158 8 David Williamson, The Removalists, from Act 2 in Collected Plays 1 (Sydney: Currency Press, 1986) 116- 23 159 9 David Ireland, from The Unknown Industrial Prisoner (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 8-13 164 D The Migrant Experience 168 1 Bernard O'Dowd, 'The Southern Call' Australia Today, special number of The Australasian Traveller, 1 November 1913: 3 174 2 Christopher Brennan, 'Each day I see the long ships coming into port' Poems [1913 ], facsimile edition, introduction G. A. Wilkes (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1972) np 175 3 An Anti-Chinese Public Meeting The Age (Melbourne) 16 April1855; reprinted in A Documentary History of Australia 2 (1841-1874), ed. Frank Crowley (Melbourne: Nelson, 1980) 311-12 176 Contents 1x 4 Faith Bandler, Wacvie, from Chapter 4 (Adelaide: Rigby, 1977) 43-50 177 5 Paul Wenz, 'Advice to New Chums' from Diary of a New Chum (Melbourne: Book Lover's Library, 1908) 63-4 181