The Overflow of Clancy

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"The Overflow of Clancy"
by "H.H.C.C"
Written1892
First published inThe Bulletin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date20 August 1892 (1892-08-20)
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The Overflow of Clancy is a poem written under the pseudonym "H.H.C.C" and first published in The Bulletin magazine on 20 August 1892 as part of the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems about the true nature of life in the Australian bush.[1] 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.[2]

However, Herbert Humphrey Cripps-Clark (1860–1929) was a contemporary poet whose initials were the same as those of the pseudonym.[3]

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  • Original Bulletin magazine text[4]

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