Sunburnt Country
p. 93 · Read in the full issue
Verse From The Sunburnt Country
This has been a vintage year for Australian poetry and for the publication of books of collected verse. Addicts are now in a position of being able to pay their money and have a wide choice.
Favourite A ustralian Poems, edited by lan Mudie, is con cerned with the well-tried variety, most of them written over 50 years ago. Although perhaps not great verse as verse goes, they are now part of Australian folk-lore and legend. Banjo Patterson’s “Clancy of the Over flow” and “The Man from Snowy River”, and slices of C.
J. Dennis’ “Sentimental Bloke” are there. So is Dorothea Mackellar’s nostalgic dedication to “My Country”: 7 love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains . , .
Only a few of the moderns are represented, as an after thought at the back.
(Favourite Australian Poems.
Published by Rigby Ltd. 21/-.)