September in Australia
"September in Australia" is a poem by Australian poet Henry Kendall.
It was originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on 19 September 1867, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
Critical reception
Critic Carmel Gaffney called this poem "the most successful of Kendall's poems that include plaintiveness for past loves and memories, and that combine positive and negative aspects of the landscape in such a manner that a single mood dominates." She went on to note that, by combining these aspects and by "celebrating the differences of 'shadow and shine' as splendid manifestations of the season, Kendall manages to transcend his sorrows."
Publication history
After the poem's initial publication in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in 1867 it was reprinted as follows:The Leader, 28 September 1867The Australasian, 28 September 1867Leaves from Australian Forests by Henry Kendall, George Robertson, 1869Poems of Henry Kendall by Henry Kendall, George Robertson, 1886A Century of Australian Song edited by Douglas Sladen, Walter Scott Publishers, 1888An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1907The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1918Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stephens and George Mackaness, Cornstalk Publishing, 1925Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944Rose Lorraine and Other Poems by Henry Kendall, W. H. Honey, 1945Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus and Robertson, 1957From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited by Thomas Thornton Reed Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien, Rigby, 1968A Treasury of Colonial Poetry, Currawong, 1982Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence edited by Michael Ackland, University of Queensland Press, 1993