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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

  • ISBN-13: 9781923024823
  • Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
    Imprint: IMPRINT CLASSICS
  • By C.J. Dennis
  • Price: AUD $19.95
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/04/2024
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 120 pages Weight: 240g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a member of a larrikin push (or gang) in Melbourne's Little Lonsdale red-light district, who encounters Doreen, a young woman "of some social aspiration", in a local market. Narrated by Bill, the poems chronicle their courtship and marriage, detailing his transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father.
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915).  Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title 'the laureate of the larrikin'. With a new introduction by John Derum, who has staged the poems as a musical many times across Australia.
* The most succesful book of poetry in Australia, this time with all colour features and a new introduction by John Derum. * ABC Radio with Derum. * A perennial favourite.
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