"Around the Boree Log and Other Verses" is a wonderful collection of
poems by Australian Poet Patrick Hartigan. This work celebrates the
lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk that the author ministered
when he was a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and
Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera. Patrick Joseph
Hartigan (1878 - 1952) was an Australian Poet and pastor. He was most
famous for his poems of the Australian bush, which were an instant
success and enjoyed popularity as far abroad as Ireland and the United
States. Contents include: "Around the Boree Log", "Calling to Me", "The
Little Irish Monster", "One by One", "Ten Little Steps and Stairs", "The
Trimmin's on the Rosary", "The Birds Will Sing Again", "The Old Bush
School", "Six Brown Boxer hats", "The Libel", etc. Many vintage books
such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in
mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern,
high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new
biography of the author.