Emus (poem)

"Emus" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Mary E. Fullerton.

It was originally published in The Bulletin on 9 August 1944 as by "E.", and was subsequently reprinted in a number of Australian poetry anthologies.

Critical reception

Reviewing the anthology From the Ballads to Brennan in The New York Times M. I. Rosenthal noted the "visionary realism" of the poem.

Publication history

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin in 1944 it was reprinted as follows:

• The Wonder and the Apple by "E.", Angus and Robertson, 1946
• Australian Poetry 1946 edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus and Robertson, 1947
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964
• Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum edited by Geoffrey Dutton, Rigby, 1976
• Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry edited by Les Murray, Collins Dove, 1986
• Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney, Five Mile Press, 2001
• The Turning Wave : Poems and Songs of Irish Australia edited by Colleen Burke and Vincent Woods, Kardoorair Press, 2001
• Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2004
• An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 edited by John Kinsella, University of Western Australia Library, 2007
• 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know edited by Jamie Grant, Hardie Grant, 2008
• The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Leonard, Puncher & Wattmann, 2009
• Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, University of NSW Press, 2011

See also

• 1944 in Australian literature
• 1944 in poetry

References