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y separately published work icon The Vernacular Republic : Poems 1961-1981 Les Murray , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z300706 1982 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems : The Vernacular Republic Les Murray , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976 Z303467 1976 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Geoffrey Lehmann , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976 Z340652 1976 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems 1936-1984 William Hart-Smith , Brian Dibble (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1985 Z379959 1985 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Christopher Brennan , G. A. Wilkes (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 Z438497 1973 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Bruce Beaver , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1979 Z57953 1979 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems A. D. Hope , David Brooks (editor), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z552438 1992 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems John Forbes , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z561968 1992 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon The Vernacular Republic : Poems 1961-1983 Les Murray , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1988 Z905438 1988 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Selected Poems David Malouf , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z158982 1991 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Collected Poems 1930-1965 A. D. Hope , New York (City) : Viking , 1966 Z244918 1966 selected work poetry satire humour Collected Poems 1930-1970 Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1972
y separately published work icon The Poems of Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson , A. R. Chisholm (editor), Sydney : Sirius Books , 1965 Z265215 1965 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976
y separately published work icon Collected Poems 1936-1970 James McAuley , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1971 Z136303 1971 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1978
y separately published work icon Selected Poems David Malouf , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1981 Z23577 1981 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1981
y separately published work icon Selected Poems (1944-1982) Roland Robinson , Anthony J. Bennett (editor), Michael Sharkey (editor), Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 1983 Z422080 1983 selected work poetry Armidale : Kardoorair Press , 1983
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Vivian Smith , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1985 Z262649 1985 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1985
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Roland Robinson , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989 Z213418 1989 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989
y separately published work icon Poet of the 21st Century : Harry Hooton : Collected Poems Harry Hooton , Sasha Soldatow (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z371858 1990 collected work poetry essay North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Eric Rolls , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z180212 1990 selected work poetry humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990
y separately published work icon Collected Poems Les Murray , New York (City) : Farrar Straus and Giroux , 1991 Z796593 1991 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Geoff Page , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z561740 1991 selected work poetry satire North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991
y separately published work icon Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb Francis Webb , Michael Joseph Griffith (editor), James A. McGlade (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z352562 1991 selected work poetry drama extract war literature satire North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991
y separately published work icon This Goes With That : Selected Poems 1970-1990 Peter Goldsworthy , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z188974 1991 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke C. J. Dennis , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1915 Z429076 1915 selected work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Complete Sentimental Bloke 2001;

Arguably the most popular book of poetry ever produced in Australia, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was first published in October 1915. Its success was immediate and unprecedented for a book of Australian verse. The first edition of 2,480 copies sold out within weeks, and by the end of February 1916 the book had reached a fifth impression and was still selling well. Tongue firmly in cheek, C. J. Dennis informed his publishers Angus and Robertson that the work's 'success [was] becoming monotonous'. There was more monotony to come, however: the book sold more than 100,000 copies in the first five years after its publication, and was rarely out of print in Dennis's lifetime. Added to this, there were film, stage, and musical versions of the work, as well as recitals given by popular entertainers. In many respects, 'The Sentimental Bloke' became a phenomenon of popular culture that took on a life of its own.

Dennis later claimed that the idea for 'The Sentimental Bloke' came from a 'racy' young man from Melbourne he had met in Toolangi. According to Dennis' wife Margaret Herron, the young man had fallen in love with a farmer's daughter, but the farmer disapproved and forbade her from having anything to do with him. The Melbourne man was said to have complained to Dennis, 'what sort of bloke do they think I am? Blimey, anyone would think I was a crook! Ain't a bloke got sisters of his own?' In Dennis's imagination, this frustrated love affair eventually became a story in which a tough, streetwise young larrikin gives up his dissolute ways for domestic happiness with his sweetheart. A crucial factor in the success of Dennis's 'Sentimental Bloke' verse was that it was narrated from the point of view of 'the Bloke', employing a slang idiom appropriate to the character. In his correspondence with his publishers, Dennis noted that 'the stuff, while not having any considerable literary merit, is, I believe, extremely popular'.

Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1992
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Ronald McCuaig , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z399909 1992 selected work poetry humour satire Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Douglas Stewart , Cremorne : Angus and Robertson , 1973 Z266357 1973 selected work poetry drama extract humour satire Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992
y separately published work icon Selected Poems Elizabeth Riddell , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z321972 1992 selected work poetry satire Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992
y separately published work icon Selected Poems John Shaw Neilson , Robert Gray (editor), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993 Z116679 1993 selected work poetry Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993
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