John Manifold biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of John Manifold

Author Name:

John Manifold

Born As:

John Streeter Manifold

Other Names:

Born:

21 Apr 1915

Died:

19 Apr 1985




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Poet and critic                          
Selected works:

Verses 1930-1933 - 1933
The Death of Ned Kelly and Other Ballads - 1941
Selected Verse - 1946
Who Wrote the Ballads?: Notes on Australian Folksong - 1954
The Violin the Banjo and the Bones: An Essay on the Instruments of Bush Music - 1957
Queensland Centenary Pocket Songbook - 1959, editor
Nightmares and Sunhorses - 1961 poems
Penguin Australian Song Book - 1964. editor
Op 8 - 1971 poems
Collected Verse - 1971
On My Selection - 1983 poems.                          
                          
Founder of the Realist Writers Group - 1950.