Michael McLaren is joined by Jim Haynes, entertainer, Author & Australian Historian, to learn more about the Banjo Patterson poem ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ that was first published on 21 December 1889.

The poem is written from the point of view of a city-dweller who once met the title character, a shearer and drover, and now envies the imagined pleasures of Clancy’s lifestyle, which he compares favourably to life in “the dusty, dirty city” and “the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal”.

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