Song for the Cattle single work   poetry   "Down the red stock route"
  • Author:agent David Campbell http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/campbell-david
Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Song for the Cattle
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    y separately published work icon The Bulletin vol. 82 no. 4248 15 July 1961 Z646910 1961 periodical issue 1961 pg. 33
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems David Campbell , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1978 Z102109 1978 selected work poetry war literature North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1978 pg. 26
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    y separately published work icon My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z1067493 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 pg. 511
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    y separately published work icon The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 pg. 198-199
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems David Campbell , Leonie Kramer (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989 Z491279 1989 collected work poetry

    'This collected edition includes all the poems from David Campbell's individual volumes from 1949 to 1979, with the exception of the translations, Moscow Trefoil (1975) and Seven Russian Poets (1979). I have rearranged them in strict chronological order of first publication, so far as this can be established.'

    Source: Introduction.

         North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989     pg. 80-81
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    y separately published work icon Fivefathers : Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era Les Murray (editor), Manchester : Carcanet , 1994 Z276076 1994 anthology poetry Manchester : Carcanet , 1994 pg. 105-106
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    y separately published work icon The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Les Murray (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1986 Z427532 1986 anthology poetry South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 pg. 196-197
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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. 217
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    y separately published work icon Song for a Wren : Country Poems and Images David Campbell , Blackheath : Writelight , 2009 Z1724418 2009 selected work poetry Blackheath : Writelight , 2009 pg. 66
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Works about this Work

Squatter Pastoral Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Tribute to David Campbell : A Collection of Essays 1987; (p. 87-99) Falling into Language 1990; (p. 72-84)
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