Antipodean Literature

C. J. Dennis’s Collected Works
https://www.amazon.com/C-J-Denniss-Collected-Works-ebook/dp/B00HUDC2II/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526792512&sr=1-6&keywords=c+j+dennis

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    My Dad had a volume of C. J. Dennis’s poetry that fascinated me as a kid. It reminded me very much of Robert Service’s works written in Alaska. One of my favorite pieces was “The Glugs of Gosh.”

    Another piece was a wonderful litany of Australian Aboriginal place names that had a lovely rhythmic quality not unlike the Lenni Lenape place names of New Jersey, which you can hear in Dave Van Ronk’s “The Jersey State Stomp (The Garden State Stomp)” under its own heading. 😉

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    This is the one my mother always liked. She used to recite it all the bloody time
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLyy-lX9UA

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      That was fantastic. I could understand a lot of it from context (and vaguely recalling the play). I think Willie the Shake would have appreciated Dennis’s retelling and vivid phraseology. 😉

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