was thought lost in the German invasion; it was finally published there in 1931. So Long, Mick! a short one-act play in prose, was also published in 1931. Brereton contributed many letters and poems on diverse subjects to the Sydney Morning Herald, often under the pseudonym 'Basil Garstang'. Legacy Brereton died suddenly on 2 February 1933 near Tamworth, New South Wales while on a caravan tour. He had married in 1900 Winifred Odd, who survived him with a daughter and four sons. As an Elizabethan scholar, his only rival in Australia in his day was Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant. His prose work was interesting and sensitive, and the best of his verse gives him an assured place among Australian poets. He was entirely unselfish and did much for Lawson when he was most in need of friends. He was a close friend of and collaborator with Henry Lawson (whom he met in late 1894 through Mary Cameron, later Dame Mary Gilmore), and Christopher Brennan. For at least part of his life, he was a disciple of Annie Besant. Brereton Park in East Ryde is named in his honour. Brereton admitted to being profoundly affected by Christopher Marlowe and Walt Whitman, and several of his emotionally intense poems addressed to men, such as 'Cling To Me' ("Cling to me, love, and dare not let me go; Kiss me as though it were our time to die, And all our comradeship had drifted by...Over our love what shelter can I throw?"), have been anthologised in collections of homosexual verse, including Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology (1993), Sexual Heretics: Male homosexuality in English literature from 1850 to 1900 (1970), and The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983). Bibliography The Song of Brotherhood, and Other Verses (1896) Landlopers (1899) Sea and Sky (1908) The Burning Marl (1919) Swags up! (1928) Knocking Round (1930) Henry Lawson, by his Mates, ed. (1931) References External links ebooks by John LeGay Brereton at Project Gutenberg Australia 1871 births 1933 deaths Australian poets Australian literary critics Australian people of English descent Writers from Sydney People educated at Sydney Grammar School University of Sydney faculty