"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
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