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.

He wrote his memoirs, Pictures on the Margin, in 1991.

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".

Bibliography

Books

• Semmler, Clement (1963). For the uncanny man : essays, mainly literary. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
• 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. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)	Wolfe, Gregory (1995). Malcolm Muggeridge : a biography. Hodder & Stoughton. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)