We would ask our mum to recite different poems to us when we'd all sit around inside at nights before we went to bed; no TV in the bush back in those days! And the outback was such a part of our lives for so long she wrote a great deal of wonderful Australian Bush Poetry. Even...
A Study on the Australian Nature Poetry - Henry Lawson and the Australian Bush정석권
was the first volume ofpoetrypublished inAustralia. Those who were likely to spend a much longer term in New South Wales, as the colony was then known, expressed a profoundnostalgiafor “home.” The sense of exile was keenly felt by the anonymous composers of convict songs and bush ballads...
There was no poetry in terms of spoken verse, but there were chants, some of them outstandingly beautiful. The majority of secret-sacred songs comprised mythic cycles, each containing several hundred verses. The wide repertoire of songs on everyday events included the “gossip” songs of ...
AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson(1864-1941) bush balladist The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses(1895) An Outback Marriage(1900) novel (wadh) See also Psyche’s post ‘Poetry Slam: Lawson v Paterson‘ Henry Lawson(1867-1922) short stories, topical ‘poetry’ (wadh) ...
“will not, I think, do her best work until, like Alice Grant Rosman, she relinquishes journalism for fiction”. I commented at the time that this was interesting from someone who, herself, combined fiction and poetry writing with journalism. I also wondered whether Urquhart needed her ...
The whole album is worth listening to, but of course, some poems and performances stand out. I can’t name them all, and anyhow, for each of us it will be different. Poetry, and music, are personal. I will close on one that I found both powerful, and interesting, “Off-World Ghaza...
My first title was a mushy teenage love story in the Dolly Fiction series. Various twists and turns led me to a rather lovely career writing for teenagers and teaching creative writing to people of all ages, though I still published poetry and short fiction here and there. My MA in Creativ...
Much of the beauty and poetry of Shakespeare’slanguagehad been removed for nothing.RichardWherrett must assume that hisaudiencehas all the intelligenceofaderanged tar-antula. Shakespeare is likemusic–it should not have to be translated. If the actorsarecompetent and the direction clear,then the...
as Slim. He was the first person to bridge the gap to poetry for me. He was able to almost recreate Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson poems through song. His music spoke volumes of his love for Australian culture and that’s what sucked us all in. We felt like he was singing about us...