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Billy Vickers single work   poetry   humour   "No song is this of leaf and bird"
  • Author:agent 'The Meddler' http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 Billy Vickers
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Notes

  • This poem was first published in the Sydney Mail on 3 April 1880, in 'The Meddler' column. It was initially stated to have been forwarded by 'a country correspondent' (not a writing name).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Songs from the Mountains Henry Kendall , Sydney London : William Maddock Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington , 1880 Z241194 1880 selected work poetry Sydney London : William Maddock Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington , 1880 pg. 80-86
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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail 3 April 1880 Z1768547 1880 newspaper issue 1880 pg. 633
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z407547 1957 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 pg. 152-155
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    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Thomas Thornton Reed (editor), Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 Z571473 1966 selected work poetry This critical edition includes 90 previously uncollected poems and collates manuscripts of the poems and their appearances in periodicals and newspapers during the poet's life-time. There are copious biographical and critical notes, indexes and a bibliography. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 pg. 173-176
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z407547 1957 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1988 pg. 152-155
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Unititled i "Of all the doings of the day", Henry Kendall , 1986 single work poetry extract satire
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse 1986; (p. 58-60) The Sting in the Wattle : Australian Satirical Verse 1993; (p. 18-19)
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