"Under Wide Skies" Jim Grahame.. Re-published
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:32 am
Jim Grahame's "Under Wide Skies" great bush poetry anthology has just been (deservedly) re-published.
The details of it are set out in the Bush Music Club's webpage, 28th August
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com/2018/ ... y-jim.html
Cost $30 + $12.50 P&P from Phillippa Hollenkamp
There is only one original copy of Jim's book currenly available on the net and that is for $380. It might be there for a while at that price.
So ...$42.50 for a re-print delivered to your door seems like an excellent deal if you are a fan or potential fan of Jim Grahame. (Lawson's mate)
Included on the above webpage is a book review. It read well until the last bit where the reviewer raised objection (her "small beef") to Jim (in 1947) entitling a poem The Men That Understand. "I would suggest that both women and men can enjoy Grahame's poetry" she petulantly states. Such a comment is a total nonsense of course when one sees it within the context of what Jim is trying to say in this poem.
Tut, tut, Jim.. go back and rewrite your book and change swagmen to swagwomen, drover to droveress, and shearer to sheareress... then come back and write 100 times, "I must not discriminate".
Clearly this reviewer is not one of "The Men ...err.. People ? Humans?.. That Understand". Never "carried a swag outback.." obviously.
Ah yes, today's political correctness fad, and its commissars.... why does it have to besmirch innocence and skilled poetry writing by raising its ugly head? Ah well..
Anyway, setting that silliness aside... I recommend this remarkable book together with the bush insights it offers to any lover of bush poetry... or anyone in fact! Many Thanks to those who re-published it.
It's fantastic. Worth every cent!
The details of it are set out in the Bush Music Club's webpage, 28th August
http://bushmusicclub.blogspot.com/2018/ ... y-jim.html
Cost $30 + $12.50 P&P from Phillippa Hollenkamp
There is only one original copy of Jim's book currenly available on the net and that is for $380. It might be there for a while at that price.
So ...$42.50 for a re-print delivered to your door seems like an excellent deal if you are a fan or potential fan of Jim Grahame. (Lawson's mate)
Included on the above webpage is a book review. It read well until the last bit where the reviewer raised objection (her "small beef") to Jim (in 1947) entitling a poem The Men That Understand. "I would suggest that both women and men can enjoy Grahame's poetry" she petulantly states. Such a comment is a total nonsense of course when one sees it within the context of what Jim is trying to say in this poem.
Tut, tut, Jim.. go back and rewrite your book and change swagmen to swagwomen, drover to droveress, and shearer to sheareress... then come back and write 100 times, "I must not discriminate".
Clearly this reviewer is not one of "The Men ...err.. People ? Humans?.. That Understand". Never "carried a swag outback.." obviously.
Ah yes, today's political correctness fad, and its commissars.... why does it have to besmirch innocence and skilled poetry writing by raising its ugly head? Ah well..
Anyway, setting that silliness aside... I recommend this remarkable book together with the bush insights it offers to any lover of bush poetry... or anyone in fact! Many Thanks to those who re-published it.
It's fantastic. Worth every cent!