The Geebung Polo Club single work   poetry   humour   "It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub,"
  • Author:agent A. B. Paterson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 The Geebung Polo Club
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The Geebung Polo Club Jason Fischer , Shauna O'Meara (illustrator), 2019 single work graphic novel
— Appears in: Skellington #1 2019; (p. 27-37)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    y separately published work icon The Antipodean 1893 Z1328416 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 4-7
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    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Library APRIL; APL; The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library John Tranter , Sydney : 2004- Z1368099 2004- website

    'The Australian Poetry Library (APL) aims to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of Australian poetry by providing access to a wide range of poetic texts as well as to critical and contextual material relating to them, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.

    This website currently contains over 42,000 poems, representing the work of more than 170 Australian poets. All the poems are fully searchable, and may be accessed and read freely on the World Wide Web. Readers wishing to download and print poems may do so for a small fee, part of which is returned to the poets via CAL, the Copyright Agency Limited. Teachers, students and readers of Australian poetry can also create personalised anthologies, which can be purchased and downloaded. Print on demand versions will be availabe from Sydney University Press in the near future.

    It is hoped that the APL will encourage teachers to use more Australian material in their English classes, as well as making Australian poetry much more available to readers in remote and regional areas and overseas. It will also help Australian poets, not only by developing new audiences for their work but by allowing them to receive payment for material still in copyright, thus solving the major problem associated with making this material accessible on the Internet.

    The Australian Poetry Library is a joint initiative of the University of Sydney and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Begun in 2004 with a prototype site developed by leading Australian poet John Tranter, the project has been funded by a major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC), CAL and the University of Sydney Library. A team of researchers from the University of Sydney, led by Professor Elizabeth Webby and John Tranter, in association with CAL, have developed the Australian Poetry Library as a permanent and wide-ranging Internet archive of Australian poetry resources.' Source: www.poetrylibrary.edu.au (Sighted 30/05/2011).

    Sydney : 2004-
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    y separately published work icon The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses A. B. Paterson , Sydney London : Angus and Robertson Young J. Pentland , 1895 Z122819 1895 selected work poetry Sydney London : Angus and Robertson Young J. Pentland , 1895 pg. 43-46
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    y separately published work icon The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson : Containing 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Rio Grande' and 'Saltbush Bill, J. P.' A. B. Paterson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1921 Z185994 1921 collected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1982 pg. 23-24
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    y separately published work icon Singer of the Bush, A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Complete Works 1885-1900 A. B. Paterson , Rosamund Campbell , Philippa Harvie , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1983 Z499636 1983 collected work short story poetry drama biography humour satire Sydney : Lansdowne , 1983 pg. 206-208
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    y separately published work icon A. B. Paterson's Off Down the Track : Racing and Other Yarns A. B. Paterson , Rosamund Campbell , Philippa Harvie , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1986 Z224653 1986 selected work poetry autobiography extract short story prose humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1986 pg. 134-135
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    y separately published work icon The Banjo's Best-Loved Poems : Chosen by his Grand-Daughters A. B. Paterson , Rosamund Campbell , Philippa Harvie , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z571016 1985 selected work poetry Willoughby : Weldon Publishing , 1989 pg. 79-81
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    y separately published work icon A Vision Splendid : The Complete Poetry of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson A. B. Paterson , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z266275 1990 selected work poetry drama satire humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 pg. 64-65
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    y separately published work icon A Treasury of Bush Verse G. A. Wilkes (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z61919 1991 anthology poetry humour North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 52-54
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems : A. B. Paterson A. B. Paterson , Les Murray , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z414462 1992 selected work poetry humour satire Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 pg. 13-15
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    y separately published work icon A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson : Bush Ballads, Poems, Stories and Journalism A. B. Paterson , Clement Semmler (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z459901 1992 selected work short story poetry extract criticism prose biography humour war literature St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 pg. 24-26
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    y separately published work icon Banjo Paterson : His Poetry and Prose A. B. Paterson , Richard Hall , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1993 Z467615 1993 selected work short story poetry extract drama criticism biography war literature humour satire St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1993 pg. 116-118
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    y separately published work icon The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson A. B. Paterson , Clement Semmler (editor), South Yarra : Viking O'Neil , 1992 Z506304 1992 collected work poetry satire humour Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 pg. 169-170
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology John Leonard (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 Z461207 1998 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) A thorough survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets, and going backward in time to the early colonial period. In addition to poems in the literary tradition, it indudes performance poetry, convict songs and old bush ballads. An extensive selection has been provided from the work of five major twentieth-century poets: Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Kenneth Slessor. Several features are provided to assist the reader: the date of first publication of each poem is provided; footnotes explain unfamiliar words and allusions; and brief biographical notes assist in locating each poet in his or her place in time. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1998 pg. 321-322
    • Batemans Bay area, Far South Coast, South Coast, New South Wales,: Dave Wood , 1999 .
      Extent: 1 broadsidep.
      Description: col. illus.
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    y separately published work icon Classic Australian Verse Maggie Pinkney (editor), Noble Park : Five Mile Press , 2001 Z864790 2001 anthology poetry Noble Park : Five Mile Press , 2001 pg. 172-175
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    y separately published work icon Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From the Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson Michael Cook (editor), Seven Hills : Little Hills Press , 2004 Z1266972 2004 anthology poetry Seven Hills : Little Hills Press , 2004 pg. 23-24
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    y separately published work icon The Bush Poems of A. B. (Banjo) Paterson A. B. Paterson , Jack Thompson , Coogee : FinePoets , 2008 Z1546816 2008 selected work poetry Coogee : FinePoets , 2008
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    y separately published work icon Banjo Paterson : The Man Who Wrote Waltzing Matilda Derek Parker , Warriewood : Woodslane Press , 2009 Z1647168 2009 single work biography ' A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson was not simply the author of the words of Waltzing Matilda, Australia's unofficial national anthem, and many other classic ballads such as The Man from Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow. Though it is now almost forgotten, he was a first-rate war correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. His dispatches from the Boer War are as vivid and exciting to read today as when they were frantically scribbled under the guns of Boer sharp-shooters, and delivered on daring rides from the front to the nearest telephone office. He was a friend of 'Breaker' Morant, whose notorious trial and execution was one of the sensations of that war. He was also an expert horseman, a man who knew everything there was to be known about horses and horse-racing, winning prizes at polo matches and race meetings. Returning from South Africa, The Banjo (as he always signed himself) worked for Sydney newspapers, and travelled to China and England (where he stayed with his friend, the poet Rudyard Kipling), and for a while led a relatively sedentary life as editor of the Sydney Evening News. At the outbreak of World War One, he failed to get accreditation as a war correspondent, and served as an ambulance driver in France, and finally to Egypt where he headed a team of rough-riders and trained horses. Major Paterson came back to Sydney to edit The Sportsman and the earliest collection of traditional bush songs, and to become a popular and well-known broadcaster in the early days of radio. By the time he died everyone in Australia knew the verses of Waltzing Matilda but scarcely anyone could have told you they had been written by 'Banjo' Paterson as he had sold the copyright outright for five pounds!' Source: Dust jacket. Warriewood : Woodslane Press , 2009 pg. 217-220
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    y separately published work icon 60 Classic Australian Poems for Children Chris Cheng (editor), Sydney : Random House Australia , 2009 Z1656747 2009 anthology poetry children's

    'The 60 poems in this collection appear in their original, or near original, form and are wide-ranging in their subject matter: animals, the countryside, the struggle of bush life, early transport, sport, growing old, being young and having fun with words! But whether they are humorous, serious or playful, they are simply a joy to read!

    No matter if we grew up reciting these classic poems at school, quote from them on important occasions or are meeting them for the first time, there is no doubt that these classic poems embody what it is to be Australian.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Sydney : Random House Australia , 2009
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    y separately published work icon The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry John Leonard (editor), Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 Z1674214 2009 anthology poetry (taught in 16 units) Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 pg. 377-378
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    y separately published work icon 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss Jamie Grant (editor), Prahran : Hardie Grant Books , 2011 Z1758937 2011 anthology poetry Prahran : Hardie Grant Books , 2011 pg. 112-113

Works about this Work

Odd Pair of Foes, United in Poetry Deborah Gough , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 March 2002; (p. 5)
Old Pair of Foes, United in Poetry Deborah Gough , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 March 2002; (p. 5)
Hey, Banjo, Have You Heard, Mate? i "Hey, Banjo, have you heard, mate, what has happened to the run", Denis Kevans , 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 147 1997; (p. 36-37)
The Intinerant Balladist John Meredith , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Breaker's Mate : Will Ogilvie in Australia 1996; (p. 9-102)
Banjo's Ballad For All Ages Andrew Mole , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 November 1984; (p. 9)

— Review of The Geebung Polo Club A. B. Paterson , 1893 single work poetry
`Greebung' Illustrated Hope Hewitt , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 December 1984; (p. 8)

— Review of The Geebung Polo Club A. B. Paterson , 1893 single work poetry
Banjo's Ballad For All Ages Andrew Mole , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 November 1984; (p. 9)

— Review of The Geebung Polo Club A. B. Paterson , 1893 single work poetry
An Old Magazine Reginald Spencer Browne , 1927 single work review
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 19 February 1927; (p. 20)
Spencer-Browne reviews an early issue of The Antipodean.
Hey, Banjo, Have You Heard, Mate? i "Hey, Banjo, have you heard, mate, what has happened to the run", Denis Kevans , 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 147 1997; (p. 36-37)
The Intinerant Balladist John Meredith , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Breaker's Mate : Will Ogilvie in Australia 1996; (p. 9-102)
Old Pair of Foes, United in Poetry Deborah Gough , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 March 2002; (p. 5)
Odd Pair of Foes, United in Poetry Deborah Gough , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 March 2002; (p. 5)
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