BACKLESS BETTY FROM BONDI Keith M. Parsons Critical Literacy provides pre- and

Critical Literacy provides pre- and in-service teachers with concrete ways to engage in critical literacy practices with children from elementary through high school

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BACKLESS BETTY FROM BONDI Keith M. Parsons Critical Literacy provides pre- andVariously called Australia's first modern poet, the father of modern Australian poetry, and "the master craftsman of them all," Kenneth Slessor continues to be admired in Australia and abroad for a comparatively small body of work. Yet one of his critics, Herbert C. Jaffa, has said that "some of [Slessor's] poems are among the most important written in English in modern literature." Backless Betty from Bondi was first published in 1930 as a poem to