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The Farmer Remembers the Somme single work poetry war literature "Will they never fade or pass!"

Author:agent Vance Palmer

Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 The Farmer Remembers the Somme

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Link: Australian War Artist (2011), Ben Quilty reads the poem on the ABC. Sighted: 09/07/2014

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y The Camp Vance Palmer , Melbourne : Sydney J. Endacott , 1920 Z197601 1920 selected work poetry Melbourne : Sydney J. Endacott , 1920
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1920
)
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y Birth : A Little Journal of Australian Poetry vol. 4 no. 41 April 1920 Z1146539 1920 periodical issue 1920
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1920
)
pg. 33
Note: First printing. Alternative first line: I wonder when they will pass!
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y The Australian Poetry Annual 1920 Z1147260 1920 periodical issue 1920
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1920
)
pg. 8
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y A Book of Queensland Verse J. J. Stable , A. E. M. Kirwood , Brisbane : Queensland Book Depot , 1924 Z545108 1924 anthology poetry Brisbane : Queensland Book Depot , 1924
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1924
)
pg. 118
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y An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems Percival Serle (editor), R. H. Croll (editor), Frank Wilmot (editor), London : Collins , 1927 Z893479 1927 anthology poetry London : Collins , 1927
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1927
)
pg. 241-242
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y An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems Percival Serle (editor), R. H. Croll (editor), Frank Wilmot (editor), London : Collins , 1927 Z893479 1927 anthology poetry Sydney Auckland : Collins , 1946
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1946
)
pg. 241-242
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y Modern Australian Poetry [1946] H. M. Green , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1952 Z16209 1952 anthology poetry Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1952
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1952
)
pg. 177
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y An Anthology of Australian Verse George Mackaness (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1952 6472657 1952 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1952
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1952
)
pg. 290
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y The Queensland Centenary Anthology Val Vallis (editor), R. S. Byrnes (editor), London Melbourne : Longmans , 1959 Z334319 1959 anthology poetry short story criticism London Melbourne : Longmans , 1959
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1959
)
pg. 49
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y From the Ballads to Brennan T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 Z407973 1964 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964
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1964
)
pg. 255
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y Silence into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse Clifford O'Brien , Adelaide : Rigby , 1968 Z413694 1968 anthology poetry extract Adelaide : Rigby , 1968
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1968
)
pg. 101-102
Note: With title: 'A Farmer Remembers the Somme.' Includes annotations.
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y Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 Adrian Mitchell (editor), Brian Elliott (editor), Melbourne : Nelson , 1970 Z429552 1970 anthology poetry Melbourne : Nelson , 1970
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1970
)
pg. 227
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y Other Banners : An Anthology of Australian Literature of the First World War J. T. Laird (editor), Canberra : Australian War Memorial and The Australian Publishing Service , 1971 Z474984 1971 anthology poetry short story prose war literature Canberra : Australian War Memorial and The Australian Publishing Service , 1971
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1971
)
pg. 130
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y The Penguin Book of Australian Verse Harry Payne Heseltine (editor), Ringwood Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1972 Z334403 1972 anthology poetry Abstract Selection of works by Australian poets from Charles Harpur (1813-1868) to Charles Buckmaster (b. 1951). Ringwood Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1972
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1972
)
pg. 141
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y The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1980 Z62463 1980 anthology poetry Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1980
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1980
)
pg. 20
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y Clubbing of the Gunfire : 101 Australian War Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Peter Pierce (editor), Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984 Z420039 1984 anthology poetry war literature Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984
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1984
)
pg. 62
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y My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985
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1985
)
pg. 540
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y The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986
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1986
)
pg. 115-116
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y The Australian Experience of War : Illustrated Stories and Verse J. T. Laird (editor), Darlinghurst : Mead & Beckett , 1988 Z82040 1988 anthology poetry short story autobiography war literature Darlinghurst : Mead & Beckett , 1988
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1988
)
pg. 140
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y Australian Poetry : Tradition & Challenge Dot Jensen (editor), Melbourne : Nelson , 1988 Z873893 1988 anthology poetry Melbourne : Nelson , 1988
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1988
)
pg. 112
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y The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996
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1996
)
pg. 115-116
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y Sunlines : An Anthology of Poetry to Celebrate Australia's Harmony in Diversity Anne Fairbairn (editor), Canberra : Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs , 2002 Z948024 2002 anthology poetry Canberra : Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs , 2002
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2002
)
pg. 30
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y The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry John Kinsella (editor), Camberwell : Penguin , 2009 Z1553543 2009 anthology poetry (taught in 16 units) Abstract
'This is a comprehensive survey of Australian poetic achievement, ranging from early colonial and indigenous verse to contemporary work, from the major poets to those who deserve to be better recognised.' (Provided by the publisher).
Camberwell : Penguin , 2009
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2009
)
pg. 128-129
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y Australian Poetry Since 1788 Geoffrey Lehmann (editor), Robert Gray (editor), Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1803846 2011 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) Abstract 'A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Included here are Australia’s major poets, and lesser-known but equally affecting ones, and all manifestations of Australian poetry since 1788, from concrete poems to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse. Translations of some striking Aboriginal song poems are one of the high points. Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011
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2011
)
pg. 223
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y This is Home : Essential Australian Poems for Children Jackie French (editor), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2019 15797080 2019 selected work poetry Abstract
'In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brave with Shaun Tan.

Ideal for sharing with the whole family, this extensively illustrated edition brings together old favourites and sure-to-be new favourites in an indispensable addition to children's bookshelves. From poems that whisper to poems that roar, from words of tranquillity and heartbreak to those of the witty and absurd, there is something within these pages to make everyone feel at home.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2019
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2019
)
pg. 47

Subjects:

Somme,
c
France,
c
Western Europe, Europe,

Settings:

Bush,
c
France,
c
Western Europe, Europe,
1910s

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