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A Dug-out Lament extract   poetry   war literature   "It ain't the work, and it ain't the Turk"
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 A Dug-out Lament
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Notes

  • This extract appears in Ashley Ekins's introduction to the third edition of The Anzac Book, which includes a number of previously unpublished poems and other items which were originally rejected by the book's editor Charles Bean.

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    y separately published work icon The Anzac Book C. E. W. Bean (editor), London New York (City) Toronto Melbourne : Cassell , 1916 Z388087 1916 anthology column short story poetry prose humour satire war literature 'Few books have ever been produced under such harsh conditions as The Anzac Book. Created by soldiers under enemy fire and in extreme hardship, the illustrations, stories, cartoons and poems were intended as a Christmas and New Year diversion for soldiers facing a harsh winter in the trenches on Gallipoli. The Anzac Book became the finest 'trench publication' produced by soldiers during the Great War and was an instant bestseller when first released in 1916. ' (New South Books website) Kensington : University of New South Wales Press , 2010 pg. xviii
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Endless Itching : How Anzacs Treated Lice in the Trenches with Poetry and Their Own Brand of Medicine Georgia McWhinney , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 April 2021;

'We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak of wounds and war doctors, documenting the work of both Anzac nations’ medical corps.' (Introduction)
Endless Itching : How Anzacs Treated Lice in the Trenches with Poetry and Their Own Brand of Medicine Georgia McWhinney , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 April 2021;

'We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak of wounds and war doctors, documenting the work of both Anzac nations’ medical corps.' (Introduction)
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