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JACK THOMPSON: The Sentimental Bloke, The Poems of C.J. Dennis The quintessential Australian actor, Jack Thompson has a passion for classic Australian poetry, particularly the Poems of C.J. Dennis. He has recorded all the well known favourites from The Sentimental Bloke, including Doreen, The Play and Hitched as well as some of Dennis’s bush poetry. A CD of the very best of the CJ Dennis poems is available from major retail outlets or online at www.finepoets.com. It sells for $19.95. Jack and CJ Dennis are about as Australian as you can get and such a perfect fit! Why didn’t someone think of it before? Jack Thompson said from his farm near Coffs Harbour today, “I love C. J. Dennis's poems. My favourites are the ones about ordinary Australians : those innocent girls and endearingly awkward blokes embarking on romance and courtship, marriage and making families: these are the big things in life. He was no slouch when it came to poetic artistry either, some of his landscape poems are truly glorious. But I think he was most at home celebrating the character and humour of ordinary Aussies. It’s been a lot of fun getting to know these poems again.” Well on the way to completing recordings of every major classic Australian poem, the list to date includes the following albums: Jack Thompson,The Bush Poems of Banjo Paterson, Jack Thompson,The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson, Jack Thompson, The Sentimental Bloke, the Poems of C.J. Dennis, JACK THOMPSON, The Battlefield Poems of A.B.(Banjo Paterson, Jack Thompson, Favourite Australian Poems, Jack Thompson, The Poems of Lewis Carroll, Jack Thompson, Live at the lighthouse which is a live recording made at the Darwin Festival in 2011 Jack Thompson Live At The Gearin which appears as both CD and DVD and was recorded at a pub Jack owned in Katoomba NSW. Fans of classic Australian poetry might also like to know that there is a new CD which has a lot of poems on it, featuring older recordings by Leonard Teale, the actor most known for his role as Sgt Mackay in the Crawford Productions vintage television show Homicide, made in Melbourne in the 1970’s. Jack Thompson Australian Poetry C.J. Dennis
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