Does 'translating' poetry mean anything? Surely the writer is really just using the original poem as the model for a new one and, in effect, carving an Oak from an Elm.

This must be a very old question is there a good summary of it somehere?

"Bushism?"

What could this mean in this context? Surely not a reference to the Crawford Cretin, is it?

I wondered about that, too.

There is something tragic in the way that a nationalist and prolific contributor to the culture and literature of his country should be considered such a threat that his existence had to be terminated.

Perhaps "Bushism" is a variation of "Bushwah" = nonsense.