Clement Semmler
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.[1]
He wrote his memoirs, Pictures on the Margin, in 1991.[2]
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".[3]
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
- ↑ Gavin Souter (Oct 28, 1966), "Man Who Shuns Nightclubs", Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ Clement Semmler, Pictures on the Margin: Memoirs, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1991, ISBN 0-7022-2411-1.
- ↑ Quadrant, October 2000, p. 80.
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