Author

C J Dennis (1876–1938), Australia’s ‘Laureate of the Larrikin’, was the nation’s most popular poet of his time. He created enduring characters such as The Sentimental Bloke, Doreen and Ginger Mick, and sold more than 700,000 books while publishing over 4,000 poems.
Beyond his celebrated vernacular verse, Dennis played an important role in shaping Australia’s culture of remembrance after the Great War. He wrote of the conflict in The Moods of Ginger Mick, of its aftermath in Digger Smith, and from 1922 to 1938 contributed annually to the Melbourne Herald with poems marking Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.
These works, written as the men of the AIF aged and a new generation inherited their story, form a significant and long-overlooked part of Australia’s Anzac tradition.

website: cjdennis.com.au