Cirrus@Austlit

Author's note: 'Part 4, "Dance, Little Wombat", is a tribute to the Australian Surrealist poets (Max Harris and the "Angry Penguins") and the home-grown nativist "Jindyworobaks" (Rex Ingamells, Ian Mudie, Flexmore Hudson, Roland Robinson, William Hart-Smith and others who contributed to Jindyworobak anthologies in the late 1930s through to 1950s). The Jindyworobaks' idea was, generally, to eject English and "foreign" references from Australian poetry and employ Aboriginal words and references. Native place names, flora, and Australian ways of speaking were to displace English poeticisms and diction. Les Murray donates a line, because in a talk he once gave, he referred to himself as "the last of the Jindyworobaks".' (Source: Editorial p. 8-9)