The first boke of fowle ayres
- Bib ID:
- 6299375
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- Australia : [publisher not identified], 1944
- 14 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Summary:
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A "collection of unattributed scurrilous and bawdy verse by such poets as A. D. Hope, James McAuley, O. M. Somerville and Harold Stewart.... Epigrams from it and some verse by Somerville and Hope are included in Comic Australian Verse (1972)."-Oxford Companion To Australian Literature. According to Austlit, other contributors included Harry Hooton and Garry Lyle (who may have been on active service in New Guinea at the time). The Sydney poet Oliver M. Somerville printed the collection on his own small press. An annotated copy of the publication in the Witting Papers at the Mitchell Library, ML MS 5303, apparently identifies the poets and the satirical targets of some of the poems.
- Full contents:
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- Prelude
- Neo-wowserism
- Hymn
- Ballade of lost phrases
- Envoi
- On R... B...
- Fall of the House of Usher's: a rondeau
- In memoriam: Australia worst
- Lampoon
- Homage to the "proletarian" "writers" (Air: "Keep the home fires burning")
- On a young lady
- Round the marble arse
- My heart belongs to Daddy
- Dieu et son doigt
- Hymn to the son
- Amicatory epigrams
- Clerihews
- New songs for old
- The Virgin Mary blues
- Ecclesiastical limmericks
- Clerihew
- Once a jolly deity (Air: "Waltzing Matilda")
- On a professor
- Epigram
- Heldentraum 1941
- On a lady
- Selene on Latmos
- Jupiter on Ganymede
- Lampoon.
- Notes:
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- Cover title.
- Library's copy was received bound with a copy of Number Two, the second of a series of three untitled booklets of poetry (also known as Untitled: An Untitled, Unpretentious, Unadvertised and Unusual Selection of Verse). Number Two is, however, not a sequel, but part of a separate related serial publication, produced by the same group of Sydney poets. Both titles were printed in 1944 by Oliver M. Somerville.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2330955
- SR 48 copy, condition reviewed, 20130808, brittle paper
- Subject:
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- Also Titled:
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- Boke of fowle ayres.
- Book of fowle ayres
- Fowle ayres
- First book of foul airs
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1944
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