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My Piccaninny single work   poetry   "He has a name which can't be brought"
  • Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1880... 1880 My Piccaninny
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Notes

  • This poem was first published in the Australian Town and Country Journal in June 1880 titled 'My Piccaninny'. The poem subsequently appeared in Songs from the Mountains titled 'Peter the Piccaninny'. This later version involved a number of minor alterations to the initial Australian Town and Country Journal version.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Peter the Piccaninny
  • 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. 104-110
  • Appears in:
    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. 184-187
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Henry Kendall : Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence Henry Kendall , Michael Ackland (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 Z85494 1993 selected work prose poetry correspondence St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1993 pg. 116-119
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