{"id":2710,"date":"2025-08-20T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:56:17","slug":"poets-perspectives-banjo-paterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/poets-perspectives-banjo-paterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets & Perspectives \u2014 Banjo Paterson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Compiled and edited by Matthew Richardson, with a Preface by Clancy’s Great Grandson<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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This is a book with a surprising agenda. Ostensibly the newest in a series of single volumes that combine selected poems with critical writings, it pursues an exploration of what poetry is and isn\u2019t. This collection of Banjo\u2019s best poems, with striking comments by Paterson and others, had to be published.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generations of critics and academics have been running Banjo down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBush poetry has no literary value.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This collection tests the proposition that academics and learned critics are too cold blooded to be trusted as judges of true poetry<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banjo Paterson is well suited to launch such an interrogation, because there have always been critics denying his work is real poetry, and educators keep it away from students. Paterson himself opens the challenge in eloquent talks about the nature of poetry, published in the critical section of this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poets and Perspectives: Banjo Paterson<\/em> contains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n