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Name
  
Clement Semmler

Role
  
Author

Died
  
August 2000


Books
  
The Banjo of the bush

Clement Semmler OBE, AM (1914–2000), was an author, reviewer and manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. His numerous literary works included The Banjo of the Bush — a study of the poet Banjo Paterson, who wrote Waltzing Matilda.

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He wrote his memoirs, Pictures on the Margin, in 1991.

His last book review was published in Quadrant just after he died in August 2000. A note accompanying it says he "wrote more reviews for the magazine, over forty-three years, than anybody else".

Books by Clement Semmler

  • For the Uncanny Man: Essays, Mainly Literary (1963)
  • Barcroft Boake: Poet of the Stockwhip (1965)
  • A.B. "Banjo" Paterson (1965)
  • Kenneth Slessor (1966)
  • The Banjo of the Bush (1966)
  • A.B. Paterson – Great Australian (1967)
  • The Art of Brian James and other Essays on Australian Literature (1972)
  • Douglas Stewart (1975)
  • The ABC: Aunt Sally and Sacred Cow (1981)
  • Pictures on the Margin: Memoirs (1991)
  • Books edited by Clement Semmler

  • Stories of the Riverina [by E.O. Schlunke] (1965)
  • Literary Australia (with Derek Whitelock) (1966)
  • Coast to Coast 1965-66 (1966)
  • The World of Banjo Paterson (1967)
  • Twentieth Century Australian Literary Criticism (1967)
  • A Frank Hardy Swag (1982)
  • The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor: Official Australian Correspondent 1940-1944 (1985)
  • The War Despatches of Kenneth Slessor: Official Australian Correspondent 1940-1944 (1987)
  • Bush Ballads, Poems, Stories and Journalism [of A.B. Paterson] (1992)
  • The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson (1992)
  • References

    Clement Semmler Wikipedia