The Turns of ‘Waltzing Matilda’
This paper was presented in the panel ‘Australian Poetics’ at the Historical Poetics symposium.
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Date Recorded: 15 Dec 2016Duration: 18:57
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Michael Farrell
is the author of Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945
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