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Howard Didn't Know (with Apologies to Banjo Patterson) single work   poetry   "I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better"
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A poem written in the style and metre of A. B. 'Banjo' Patterson's 'Clancy of the Overflow'.

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  • Author's note: The release of Commissioner Terrence Cole's report into AWB's [Australian Wheat Board's] lavish underwriting of Saddam Hussein's war effort prompts me to reprint for you some doggerel on the subject, first seen in this column last February. As happens these days, it quickly hit the internet, described as "by Anon". Kind people have been emailing it to me on and off ever since, hoping that I might enjoy it. Such is life. I actually wrote it.

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I Had Written Him a Letter Nicholas Jose , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 23 2009; (p. 83-87)
I Had Written Him a Letter Nicholas Jose , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 23 2009; (p. 83-87)
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