poing quizz

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Re: poing quizz

Post by Peely » Sat May 21, 2016 7:24 pm

Robyn Lee Burrows and Alan Barton
John Peel - The Man from Gilmore Creek

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Re: poing quizz

Post by manfredvijars » Sun May 22, 2016 12:03 am

Send a message to Hully if you want a copy(Stranger on the Darling), he'll point you in the right direction ...
It's a great read ...

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Re: poing quizz

Post by Vic Jefferies » Sun May 22, 2016 10:38 am

Lawson, as many other poets and writers did in those days, wrote under a number of "pen" names so as to have their work published in various publications without upsetting their main publishers. I seem to remember reading both Paterson and Lawson writing for a penny a line at one time.
Henry of course is said to have written poems for a drink when he was down on his luck (some of which were written on various bar room walls) and therefore we will never have a complete record of his writings.

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When your form was straight and tall,
You'd bring bright sparkles to each lassie's eye
When you came to the gay bush ball."
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Re: poing quizz

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Sun May 22, 2016 10:41 am

Then again, Vic, as Denton Prout points out, a lot of the stuff that he wrote for a drink was a re-hash of stuff he'd written earlier, so perhaps we are not missing much.
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Re: poing quizz

Post by Heather » Wed May 25, 2016 11:39 am

Thanks John - and Manfred. :)

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