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Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 This, My Son
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'The poem tells, with sincerity and power, the story of a mother's love for her only son, through his childhood, enlistment in the R.A.A.F. and his death in the war.'

Source: '"This, My Son" Next Week', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 19 Sep. 1945, p. 6.

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to Michael.
  • Long poem in forty numbered sections.
  • The 6 November 1943 issue of The Argus has a short review, written by Erle Cox, of This, My Son. 

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y separately published work icon Poetess Joan Kinmont at Home : How This, My Son Was Written. 1944 (Manuscript version)x401454 Z1207313 1944 single work interview
This, My Son: A Tasmanian Masterpiece 1943 single work column
— Appears in: Voice (Hobart) , 27 December 1943; (p. 4)

'The recently issued "This, My Son," by Joan Kinmont is a production of which the whole of the people of Tasmania should be proud. The authoress is a well-known resident of Hobart, the book has been locally published, and nothing more touching can be found in all English literature than the poignant verse-story of mother love that is its theme.'

Source: '"This, My Son": A Tasmanian Masterpiece', Voice, 27 Dec. 1943, p. 4.

A Hobart Poetess La Donna , 1943 column
— Appears in: The Advocate (Burnie) , 22 July 1943; (p. 6)

'From the O.B.M book Arcade, Hobart, has come for review a copy of "This, My Son," the much-praised volume of verses by the Hobart poetess, Joan (Mrs. T. A.) Kinmont.'

Source: 'A Hobart Poetess', Advocate, 22 Jul. 1943, p. 6.

y separately published work icon Poetess Joan Kinmont at Home : How This, My Son Was Written. 1944 (Manuscript version)x401454 Z1207313 1944 single work interview
A Hobart Poetess La Donna , 1943 column
— Appears in: The Advocate (Burnie) , 22 July 1943; (p. 6)

'From the O.B.M book Arcade, Hobart, has come for review a copy of "This, My Son," the much-praised volume of verses by the Hobart poetess, Joan (Mrs. T. A.) Kinmont.'

Source: 'A Hobart Poetess', Advocate, 22 Jul. 1943, p. 6.

This, My Son: A Tasmanian Masterpiece 1943 single work column
— Appears in: Voice (Hobart) , 27 December 1943; (p. 4)

'The recently issued "This, My Son," by Joan Kinmont is a production of which the whole of the people of Tasmania should be proud. The authoress is a well-known resident of Hobart, the book has been locally published, and nothing more touching can be found in all English literature than the poignant verse-story of mother love that is its theme.'

Source: '"This, My Son": A Tasmanian Masterpiece', Voice, 27 Dec. 1943, p. 4.

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