The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse

This selection of popular verse speaks with the voice of Australia, from the convict era to the present day.

It is a book to give pleasure to all lovers of verse; to recall the old favourites nostalgically remembered, and to open new doors by introducing the modern poets who speak of our world today.

In harmony with the poems, an inspired selection of paintings, drawings and photographs complement the poets’ visions and help to evoke atmosphere, time and place.

Love of country and the beauty of the Australian landscape are celebrated in poems like Henry Kendall’s ‘September in Australia’ and Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ and in many later lyrics. Henry Lawson, Shaw Neilson, Mary Gilmore, are all given their place.