ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

I'm expanding my list of tradition poetry so would appreciate any suggested poems to learn ?

Already have My Country, The Man From Snowy River, Clancy Of The Overflow The Man From Ironbark, Mulga' Bill Bicycle, A Bush Christening,

Cheers Bob

Bob Pacey wrote:I'm expanding my list of tradition poetry so would appreciate any suggested poems to learn ?

Already have My Country, The Man From Snowy River, Clancy Of The Overflow The Man From Ironbark, Mulga' Bill Bicycle, A Bush Christening,

Cheers Bob

Hi Bob
I am inspired by Lawson's 'Eureka'. It's a great poem, as is anything by Lawson.

always liked the tale of Andy's gone with Cattle and it is not a really long poem - one of Henry's and also his one The Cattle Dogs Death. That one always makes me teary.

Cheers

Maureen

The Geebung Polo Club.

How McDougall Topped the Score.

What about

"The Lights Of Cobb and Co.".

Now I don't know the poem at all, having heard the title ut I don't recall ever having read the poem. Perhaps I have heard it somewhere back in the archives of time, because the name just popped into my head as some as I read Bob's request. I'm off now to look it up. I'm sure it will be in one of the fine anthologies or collections of Australian poets and poems that my girls have given me over the years. I'll get back to you shortly.

g'day Bob,I have never really done any reciting but I started learning Banjos "Saltbush Bills last Fight" a long time ago, I love the poem but it is a bit long perhaps.

The Old Bush School by John O'Brien.

When your Pants Begin to Go. Henry Lawson.


The Travelling Post Office. Banjo Paterson.

Yeah Bob. Get away from Paterson. Every poem you mentioned was an old cliché Paterson job except for that bloody horrible old My Country!!! There are hundreds of great old poems around. Don't let yourself get bogged down in the old crap. I tell you from experience, people do not want to get get bombarded with it it. Either look for obscure stuff or write it.

Neil

Sounds like good advice.

keats wrote:Yeah Bob. Get away from Paterson. Every poem you mentioned was an old cliché Paterson job except for that bloody horrible old My Country!!! There are hundreds of great old poems around. Don't let yourself get bogged down in the old crap. I tell you from experience, people do not want to get get bombarded with it it. Either look for obscure stuff or write it.

Neil

I agree.
By the way, would anyone be interested in some research I did on "My Country"? It seems to be VERY similar to a song called "Australia Fair" written and published by Maybanke Anderson in 1902.