A Treasury of Bush Verse
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| Author | G. A. Wilkes |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry anthology |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 85 pp. |
| ISBN | 0207173001 |
A Treasury of Bush Verse is an anthology of bush verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, published by Angus and Robertson in 1991.[1]
The collection contains 47 poems, from a number of authors and sources.[2]
- "My Country", Dorothea Mackellar
- "Botany Bay", Anonymous
- "The Wild Colonial Boy", Anonymous
- "The Overlander", Anonymous
- "The Banks of the Condamine", Anonymous
- "Stringy Bark and Green Hide", George Chanson
- "The Old Bullock Dray", Anonymous
- "Click Go the Shears", Anonymous
- "Flash Jack from Gundagai", Anonymous
- "Down Where the Coolibahs Grow", Horace A. Flower
- "A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest", Charles Harpur
- "The Sick Stock-Rider", Adam Lindsay Gordon
- "Finis Exoptatus", Adam Lindsay Gordon
- "Where the Dead Men Lie", Barcroft Boake
- "The Women of the West", George Essex Evans
- "The Last of His Tribe", Henry Kendall
- "The Cattle Hunters", Henry Kendall
- "Bell-Birds", Henry Kendall
- "A Bushman's Song", A. B. Paterson
- "Waltzing Matilda : Carrying a Swag", A. B. Paterson
- "The Man from Snowy River", A. B. Paterson
- "Clancy of the Overflow", A. B. Paterson
- "Saltbush Bill", A. B. Paterson
- "The Man from Ironbark", A. B. Paterson
- "A Bush Christening", A. B. Paterson
- "Been There Before", A. B. Paterson
- "The Geebung Polo Club", A. B. Paterson
- "Andy's Gone with Cattle", Henry Lawson
- "The Ballad of the Drover", Henry Lawson
- "The Shearers", Henry Lawson
- "The Teams", Henry Lawson
- "Middleton's Rouseabout", Henry Lawson
- "Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson
- "Cockies of Bungaree", Anonymous
- "Wallaby Stew", Anonymous
- "Nine Miles from Gundagai", Jack Moses
- "Shearing in the Bar", Duke Tritton
- "The Song of the Wattle", Veronica Mason
- "Said Hanrahan", 'John O'Brien'
- "Tangmalangaloo", 'John O'Brien'
- "Fourteen Men", Mary Gilmore
- "Country Towns", Kenneth Slessor
- "Crow Country", Kenneth Slessor
- "Remittance Man", Judith Wright
- "South of My Days", Judith Wright
- "Up-Country Pubs", Colin Thiele
- "Sydney and the Bush", Les Murray