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The bush ballad, bush song, or bush poem is a style of poetry and folk music that depicts the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush. The typical bush ballad employs a straightforward rhyme structure to narrate a story, often one of action and adventure, and uses language that is colourful, colloquial, and idiomatically Australian.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature calls this Harpur's "best-known and most-anthologised descriptive poem." However they then go on to say that "Although often praised for its creation of the hushed somnolent atmosphere of the summer noonday in the Australian bush, the poem lacks Australian definition."
"The Old Bush Road" (1892) (aka ("An Old Bush Road") is a poem by Australian poet Jennings Carmichael. [1]It was originally published in The Australasian on 23 April 1892 and subsequently reprinted in Poems, the author's sole poetry collection, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
Banjo Paterson : His Poetry and Prose edited by Richard Hall, 1993 [22] The Bush Poems of A. B. (Banjo) Paterson edited by Jack Thompson, FinePoets, 2008 [23] 60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2009 [24] 60 Classic Australian Poems for Children edited by Chris Cheng, Random House, 2009 [25]
Australian Bush Poems, Axiom, 1991 [18] A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, Angus and Robertson, 1991 [19] The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss, Penguin, 1993 [20] The Romance of the Stockman: The Lore, Legend and Literature of Australia's Outback Heroes, Viking O'Neill, 1993 [21]
The "Bulletin Debate" was a well-publicised dispute in The Bulletin magazine between two of Australia's best known writers and poets, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.The debate took place via a series of poems about the merits of living in the Australian "bush", published from 1892 to 1893.
In Defence of the Bush is a popular poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 23 July 1892 in reply to fellow poet Henry Lawson's poem, Up The Country.
Wearing the title of 'Universally acclaimed in Australia as a bush balladist of the "Outback"', [2] Will H. Ogilvie wrote over 1,100 poems, including A Scotch night, The Australian, Summer country, Kings of the earth, and Whaup o' the rede.