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Where the Bunyip Builds its Nest : Five Centos
2011
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2011
1. This Happy Isle
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Author's note: 'Part 1, "This Happy Isle", can be read as ironic, but it alludes to more than it states; I trust it's also a relatively engaging concatenation. Early colonial poems exhibit interesting efforts of settlers and visitors to get to grips with the novelty of what they were experiencing; some lines reflect poems whose tone is doleful; others are from poems that celebrate the "new" land, though true to a predominant sentiment of the period, the Aborigines disappear as Cento 1 poem moves to its end.' (Source: Editorial p. 8)
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