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]

Bibliography

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Books

  • Semmler, Clement (1963). For the uncanny man : essays, mainly literary.
  • 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
  • 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)

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
1996 Semmler, Clement (May 1996). "The threefold Muggeridge". Quadrant. 40 (5): 83–84. Wolfe, Gregory (1995). Malcolm Muggeridge : a biography. Hodder & Stoughton.

References

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