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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Songs of the Sentimental Bloke is a wonderfully executed and quite hilarious verse novel* by the Aus novelist and poet CJ Dennis...
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It has been decades since I had read this and is well worth a little time put aside to do so. In fact Lynx-lynx's nomination's reminding me of it has prompted me to build my own eBooky version to keep under my pillow with Clancy and friends
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Should be pretty easy going for non fair-dinkum Australians and NZ'ers.
Not saying this is what I would vote for
but as it is a bit of a wild card among the nominations in that it is verse and not well known outside of the Antipodes (and I suspect much less known even in NZ than the works of contemporaries such as 'Banjo' Paterson and Henry Lawson) it would be a pity if it was passed over without a try by readers.
There was a VERY important early silent Oz film adaption "The Sentimental Bloke" made shortly after the book was published and is worth a look to help the understanding and also see Oz life in early 20th Century. A number of copies are floating around on the internet but due to the "lost and found" and subsequent restorations nature of the material I am reticent to link to them as I am unsure of copyright; but you all know where to go don't you.