Backblock Ballads and Other Verses is the first collection of poems by the Australian writer C. J. Dennis, published by E. W. Cole, Melbourne, in 1913.
Writing about the collection in The Sunday Times from Sydney a reviewer stated: "In Australia we have had some very good light versifiers.
"[3] In the Melbourne Herald Archibald T. Strong commented: "These ballads, with a few exceptions, pretend to be nothing more than entertaining jingles.
By far the best part of the book is that written in that specific variety of impure English which may be termed pure Australian.
[2] The collection contains stories that were originally published in The Bulletin, The Critic, The Gadfly, The Lone Hand, and Adelaide's Evening Journal newspaper.