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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.
Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944 [4] Selected Poems of Henry Kendall edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus and Robertson, 1957 [ 5 ] Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2002 [ 6 ]
60 Classic Australian Poems is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008. [ 1 ] The collection contains 60 poems from a variety of sources, along with a commentary on each from the editor.
"The Fire at Ross's Farm" (1890) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. [1] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 6 December 1890 and subsequently reprinted in several of the author's other collections, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (26 March 1866 – 2 May 1892) was an Australian stockman and poet who wrote primarily within the bush poetry tradition. He was active for only a few years before his suicide at the age of 26.
The compilation consists of 53 works of prose and verse from writers across Australia's literary landscape, and features 31 narrators delivering a mix of folk ballads and bush poetry from the 1800s through to 20th century prose, and lyrical songs reflecting on life in their country.
The City Bushman is a poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 6 August 1892, under the title In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise . It was the fourth work in the Bulletin Debate , a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson , and others, about the true ...
"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.