Selected Poems

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Typically Australians come to the verse of Banjo Paterson through hearing it recited. My own introduction came from my father reciting 'A Bush Christening' and 'The Man From Ironbark' so far back in my childhood that I have no memory of what age I was. At a party or a dance in the pub or in the club in an Army camp ore even during lunch hour at work someone will start reciting 'Mulga Bill's Bicycle' or How the 'Favourite Beat Us' and people will fall silent to listen. We keep thinking this moment must be obsolete and disappearing but it goes on happening. Les Murray from the Introduction. More than fifty years after the death of A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson Australians still find much to wonder at and admire within his poetry. This edition introduced and selected by Les Murray includes 68 poems from the celebrated 'Walzting Matilda' 'A Bush Christening' and 'Clancy of the Overflow' to the immortal 'The Man from Snowy River'.