Readings from the book, published by Allen & Unwin, will be broadcast on ABC National Radio next month.
Dr Clark blames British academics, possibly with the help of MI5 and the CIA, for “this organized program against Australia”.
What he revealed, he said, was the literary equivalent of getting the ashes back on English soil.
Currency, The Complete Book of Australian Verseincluding works by hitherto unknown poets such as Rabbi Burns, Arnold Wordsworth, Warren Keats, Amy Lou Dickinson, Walter Burley Yeats, Kahliji Bran, TS (Tabi Sirius) Eliot, Sir Don Bettjeman, DH Oding, Louis “The Lip” MacNeice, Dylan Thompson and Sylvia Plath.
Dr. Clarke said that some of the authors are related to well-known international poets with similar names. Ewen Coleridge, a plumber from Annandale who lived with Arnold Wordsworth, is not represented because his works, often written while undergoing one of the early methadone treatments, have been lost. However, Dr. Clark said, it was possible that some of Ewen’s work appeared under the name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who smoked opium and wrote Crusted with an old navigator.
Arnold Wordsworth, now believed to have written Narcissus It represents most of the works attributed to William Wordsworth Lines formed midway across the Pyrmont Bridge:
Earth has nothing to show more fairness,
It will be soft, imperfectly resistant,
Who would willingly give up such an opinion,
For, behold, the bird breaks its wind.
And this whole joint doesn’t look so unpleasant,
Stand back, because when she goes, she goes bloody.
Dr. Clark noted that the works of writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare were not under challenge because white writers had only been in Australia for 200 years and blacks had no written culture.
However, fragments were found around Stratford, near Horsham, Victoria, for Trevor Shakespeare’s work, beginning with: “Will there be any point in my formal some sort of comparison between you and the author of the absolute?”
Why Australians emerged as the world’s greatest writers?
“The depth and splendor of Australian culture, the wit and imagination of Australian writing – and perhaps the brew.”
Why should the Australian revolution end in poetry? What about novels and dramas?
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“Of course. The history of Australian theater is littered with cobbled bits by less important people like Chekhov and Ibsen and other crooks from places like Scandinavia, where nothing can be verified, and Russia. Who knows what’s going on there?”
“We found this guy named Gavin Tolstoy in Darwin somewhere. He wrote 87 tons in just one book. Four container trucks she brings from Darwin. Puts war and peace in the shade.”
*John Clark says he completed his Ph.D. in Leipzig, and recently worked in the Department of Negative Reinforcement at Bond University, and on his own agrarian reform project. He is also known as Fred Dag, a comedian.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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