Dr Philip Butterss studied at the University of Sydney where he studied Early English literature, Middle Welsh, and a PhD on Australian ballads. His recent book, An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis (2014), explores the poet’s imagining of Australian identity and influence on the Anzac legend. He discusses how the ending of C.J. Dennis’s The Moods of Ginger Mick, launched in October 1916, could be seen as its author’s attempts to find the narrative shape to tell the story of Gallipoli during the legend’s first slippery year.