May 2022
About a week ago, I visited a second hand store to browse some clothes and hopefully pick me up a bargain. I love second hand shops because you can spend hours in there having a bit of a look-see and you never know what you could find. Usually I walk away with more books than anything else.
I found this book (180 pp) called The Call of the Gums which is an old book (it’s going for about $20 but I found it for $3). Naturally I bought it because I wanted to read some of Australia’s “bush” poetry.
I haven’t read poetry. We did some of it at school learning Banjo Patterson or Henry Lawson but that’s it. I can’t remember much of it either. However reading through the anthology of poems about Australia in the late 1800s and early 1900s gives you a snapshot of what life – and how difficult life was back then at the whim of the harsh climate.
Yesterday I tweeted Banjo Patterson’s Clancy of the Overflow. Such a brilliant poem – have a read of this. The Great Resignation. Australia,1889 style. pic.twitter.com/mXl805bJxx
What I loved is that Simon Terry (@simongterry) then created his own poem inspired by it but with a current feel to it. ? He called his poem Clancy@Stackoverflow.
Here’s some more of the excellent poetry from the book:
After discussing one of my favourite classic Australian poems with @ActivateLearn yesterday I couldn’t resist the temptation to ruin it: so here’s clancy@stackoverflow with apologies to AB ‘Banjo’ Patterson. https://t.co/iida8mYiZn
— Simon Terry (@simongterry) May 12, 2022
And then to top it off, he wrote a second one Just goes to show that we are never happy. Great poem by Australian bush poet P.J Harriman, 1919. And just like that, in one poem by Australia’s famous poet A.D Hope, he tells my feelings exactly about my country. When you reach that stage, Henry Lawson’s Past Carin’ (you can feel the hopelessness in this poem). pic.twitter.com/fD49acg4NJ The Mailman’s Ride (anon). Reading some of Australia’s bush songs and ballads and like this one.
“We’ll all be rooned!” (Ruined). pic.twitter.com/Ex6pGVuJ3L
You can get pissed off by it but when you’re overseas, you realise it’s where you feel you most belong. It’s home. pic.twitter.com/zShZFTMnHN
Oh so good. Wait for the twist. ? pic.twitter.com/c2cUaSM7kh
This is Murphy’s Law. Or God’s humour. ? pic.twitter.com/J2sFntEWqn
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