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Issue Details: First known date: 1941... 1941 Spikenard and Bayonet
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  • Dedication: Dedication To C.M.M.S. For Thoughts

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Bread and Cheese Club , 1941 .
      Printed by Oxford Press
      Note/s:
      • Foreword: 'In the twenty-odd fine poems included in this slim book my friend Shawn (christened Shawn Hamilton) O'Leary presents, in metrical form, the thoughts and emotions of an Australian soldier as experienced in the two strenuous campaigns through which he has fought in this war - the first Libyan campaign, in which the Australians reached a point one hundred miles west of Benghasi, and the later triumphal progress through Syria....Queenslander Shawn's parents were Highland Scots whose forbears, in the 14th Century, came from the Green Isle....In private life a journalist, cavalryman Shawn O'Leary is a member of the Bread and Cheese Club, that band of writers, artists and poets who, from their headquarters in Melbourne, are doing so much work to further Australia's creative art in all its aspects.' J. Alex Allan H.Q., A.I.F., Middle East. September 5, 1941

Works about this Work

Poems by Soldiers S. C. Spargo , 1945 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry , September no. 16 1945; (p. 40-47)

— Review of Battle Stations John Quinn , 1944 selected work poetry ; Spikenard and Bayonet Shawn O'Leary , 1941 selected work poetry
A New Digger's Book 1942 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 February vol. 63 no. 3235 1942; (p. 2)

— Review of Spikenard and Bayonet Shawn O'Leary , 1941 selected work poetry
Recent Australian Poetry Mopoke , 1942 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Papers , January vol. 1 no. 7 1942; (p. 19-21)

— Review of Jindyworobak Anthology, 1941 1941 periodical issue ; Poems Joseph O'Dwyer , 1941 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1941 1941 anthology poetry ; Spikenard and Bayonet Shawn O'Leary , 1941 selected work poetry
Poems by Soldiers S. C. Spargo , 1945 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry , September no. 16 1945; (p. 40-47)

— Review of Battle Stations John Quinn , 1944 selected work poetry ; Spikenard and Bayonet Shawn O'Leary , 1941 selected work poetry
Recent Australian Poetry Mopoke , 1942 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Papers , January vol. 1 no. 7 1942; (p. 19-21)

— Review of Jindyworobak Anthology, 1941 1941 periodical issue ; Poems Joseph O'Dwyer , 1941 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1941 1941 anthology poetry ; Spikenard and Bayonet Shawn O'Leary , 1941 selected work poetry
A New Digger's Book 1942 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 February vol. 63 no. 3235 1942; (p. 2)

— Review of Spikenard and Bayonet Shawn O'Leary , 1941 selected work poetry
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