Very proud to be publishing @ajbwells.bsky.social's ingenious piece on Banjo Paterson, 'the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia'.
Please read and share widely!
'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.'
New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson
Gabriel Flynn
creativecritical.net
By Alexander Wells. A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson (1864–1941) is probably the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia. His bush ballads, as they are called, still get inflicted on Australian school stude...
