A life well-lived

WHEN most hunting folk think of the 19th-century sporting poet Will H Ogilvie, it is for his poem Running On, frequently read at hunting funerals.

However, a new collection of many of his 1,100 poems, Belalie and Beyond, reveals a man who spent 11 years in Australia as a jackaroo, horseman and “Bush poet”, every bit as sensitive, sincere (and some would say sentimental) as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Henry Newbolt and GJ Whyte-Melville.

The book is the achievement of the Will H Ogilvie Memorial Trust in