Bush poetry

Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…

Discusses the origins and sources of Banjo Paterson's ballad 'The Settler's Lament'.

Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell’s 1919 adaptation of C.J. Dennis’s vastly popular 1915 verse novel, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, has long been…