The Overflow of Clancy

The Overflow of Clancy is a poem written by Herbert Humphrey Cripps Clark under the pseudonym "H.H.C.C". It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 20 August 1892 as part of the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by Lawson, Paterson, and others, about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. The poem is a parody of Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow.

Colin Roderick, in his biography Banjo Paterson: Poet by Accident (1993), states on page 76 that he believes the poem was written by Henry Lawson. However Herbert Humphrey Cripps Clark (1860-1929) was a real poet and contributed to the Bulletin and other Australian newspapers and journals from the 1880s until his death in 1929, in Goulburn, NSW. It is perhaps interesting that Norman Lindsay who illustrated some of Cripps Clark's poems, details when Lawson and Cripps Clark met at the Bulletin office in his "Bohemians of the Bulletin" (1965 book).

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