Baiamai's Never-Failing Stream
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| "Baiamai's Never-Failing Stream" | |
|---|---|
| by William Hart-Smith | |
| First published in | Meanjin Papers |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | Autumn 1944 |
| Lines | 8 |
"Baiamai's Never-Failing Stream" is a poem by Australian/New Zealand poet William Hart-Smith.[1]
It was first published in Meanjin Papers on Autumn 1944,[2] and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.
In his commentary on the poem in 60 Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page called this poem "one of the high points of the Jindyworobak movement and one of the few examples where a non-Aboriginal writer has successfully caught at least a part of the Aboriginal cosmos." He went on to say that the poem "exists on two levels: as a convincing (and useful) insight from one worldview to another; and as a fine example of craftmanship in a form which many readers at the time considered to involve no craft at all."[3]