John Manifold

While in Cambridge he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was involved in an attempt to create a successor (Poetry and the People) to Left Review, when the latter folded in 1938. He then worked in Germany, in publishing. During World War II, he served in intelligence in the British Army, in the Middle East, Africa and France. He was a published war poet; Trident, with Hubert Nicholson and David Martin, was published by Randall Swingler's Fore Publications in 1944. In 1949, he returned to Australia, settling in Brisbane. He was a founder in 1950 of the Realist Writers Group. He then worked and published mostly on Australian songs and music, reciting ballads at arts festivals. In the 1984 Australia Day Honours, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to literature as a poet and musician". He died in Brisbane.

• Name — John Streeter Manifold • Born — 21 April 1915 • Birthplace — Melbourne • Died — 19 April 1985 • Place of death — Brisbane, Queensland, Australia • Education — Geelong Grammar School, Jesus College, Cambridge • Occupation — Publisher, poet, intelligence officer • Political Party — Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) • Honours — Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - 1984 Australia Day Honours

• Bandicoot Ballads (1955) • The Penguin Australian Song Book (1964)

• The Amorous Flute: An unprofessional handbook for recorder players and all amateurs of music (1948) • The Violin, the Banjo and the Bones: An Essay on the Instruments of Bush Music (1957) • Who Wrote the Ballads?: Notes on Australian Folksong (1964) • The Changing Face of Realism (1971)

• |Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected in • "The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, AIF" — 1945 — New Republic, 10 September 1945 — Collected Verse, University of Queensland Press, pp. 73–75 • "On the Boundary" — 1959 — Overland, Autumn 1959 — Nightmares and Sunhorses, Overland Press, 1961, p. 13