| Author | C. J. Dennis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry collection |
| Publisher | E. W. Cole |
Publication date | 1913 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 199 pp |
| Preceded by | - |
| Followed by | The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke |
Backblock Ballads and Other Verses is the first collection of poems by the Australian writer C. J. Dennis, published by E. W. Cole, Melbourne, in 1913. It includes his famous poems "Wheat" and "The Austra-laise", as well as the first book publication of several poems that would later appear in The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke.[1]
The collection consists of 58 poems from a variety of sources. The bulk of the collection was later re-issued in 1918 under the title of Backblock Ballads and Later Verses.[1]
The title is a homage to Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses.[2]
Dennis included a "Glossary" of terms used in the poems at the end of the book, which he sub-titled "For the use of the thoroughly genteel".