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Ironbark was the earlier name for Stuart Town, a town in the Central West region of New South Wales. [2] In 2004, a representative of The Wilderness Society posed as "The Ghost of the Man from Ironbark", a reference to the poem, to campaign for the protection of the remaining Ironbark woodlands in New South Wales and Queensland. [3]
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson.It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "The Man from Ironbark".
The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s. [3]
He is better known by his pen name, Ironbark. Gibson was born in Plymouth , England, where his father was a solicitor. Gibson also qualified as a solicitor in 1868 but the next year he decided to emigrate to New Zealand , soon crossing the Tasman to settle in New South Wales , where he had experience on the land for some years.
2001 in Australian literature: Death of Amy Witting; Quarterly Essay publishes its first issue; True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey wins the Man Booker Prize; Gould's Book of Fish – Richard Flanagan; Stravinsky's Lunch – Drusilla Modjeska; Dirt Music – Tim Winton
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1975 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
On its original publication in Australia The Sunday Times noted "As to the contests of Saltbush Bill, J.P., it is to be regretted that Banjo himself was not responsible for the selection, as he would certainly have omitted quite a number of verses — fugitive lines, poor jokes in rhyme, and inconsequentialities that, although well enough in the columns of a newspaper, would be better out of a ...
"The Geebung Polo Club" is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Antipodean [1] in 1893. It was also included in his first anthology of bush poetry The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses in 1895.