[Editor: This article is about “The Blood Vote”, a significant anti-conscription poem of the First World War. Published in The Australian Worker (Sydney, NSW), 30 October 1919.] “The Blood Vote.” The Big War produced very little Great Poetry. True, it gave rise to a great deal of verse, and a still larger quantity of doggerel. […]
“Digger yabber” described: The lingo the Aussie talks [9 March 1919]
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[Editor: An article about the slang of Australian soldiers from World War One. Published in The Sunday Times, 9 March 1919.] “Digger yabber” described The lingo the Aussie talks A glossary of the comprehensive kind (For “The Sunday Times,” by “Lieutenant.”) He is coming back in his hundreds and his thousands, and amongst the many […]
The Dream is Deep [poem by John Shaw Neilson]
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[Editor: This poem by John Shaw Neilson was published in Heart of Spring (1919) and Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).] The Dream is Deep Sing me the song that never dies, Of little Love blinded and bold, Blossoms unblemished and blue skies And the green going into gold. All the uproarious pipes we […]
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