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y separately published work icon A Back-Answer : With All Good Wishes from the Land Where, a Poet Has Told Us, 'Bright Blossoms Are Scentless, and Songless, Bright Birds;' single work   poetry   children's   "When all's said and done in this new land of ours"
Issue Details: First known date: 1930-1939... 1930-1939 A Back-Answer : With All Good Wishes from the Land Where, a Poet Has Told Us, 'Bright Blossoms Are Scentless, and Songless, Bright Birds;'
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

A collection of illustrated verses designed to refute the idea that Australian flowers and without scent and Australian birds without song.

Notes

  • Several Australian library catalogues list this work as being by Inshallah Roe; Australian Children's Books : A Bibliography 1774-1972 by Marcie Muir (1992), attributes the work to Harold Sidney Blake. There is no evidence, however, on any of the three sighted copies, to support authorship by either of these. Muir also gives the publisher as Angus and Robertson but this is not borne out by examination of the sighted copies.
  • A rebus; numbered illustrations represent various Australian birds and wildflowers with the 'answers' provided at the end of the book.
  • A mention of the work in the Brisbane Courier of 23 September 1932 states that the work is 'an artistic production by Miss Madge Roe, of Brisbane' (p. 19). This authorship cannot be verified.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Brisbane, Queensland,: s.n. , 1930-1939 .
      Printed by Herbert Blake
      person or book cover
      Link: 8506436Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: 9 [2]p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2009, from the collection of the NLA.
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