Australian Poetry: Banjo Paterson's Clancy Of The Overflow

Banjo Paterson is far and away the best known of Australian poets - and not just for his ubiquitous masterpiece "Waltzing Matilda". His poems of the Australian bush capture the 'feel' of country (at least from my perspective) vividly - the wide open spaces, the sweep of the sky reaching down to the horizon, the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars are what I mostly associate with the Australia of song and story.

Clancy of the Overflow is a rather straightforward contrast between the two Australias of open space and city. All brought out in Paterson's wonderfully flowing verse, with its long, pattering lines and internal rhymes, drawing the reader in not so much by the imagery