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"Up The Country" is a popular poem by iconic
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
n writer and poet
Henry Lawson Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period ...
. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 9 July 1892, under the title "Borderland''."'' Its publication marked the start of the
Bulletin Debate 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 li ...
, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson asserting contrasting views of the true nature of life in the Australian bush. In ''Up The Country,'' Lawson recounts his trip to the barren and gloomy Australian bush, and criticises "City Bushmen" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticize bush life. Paterson later responded with a poem of his own, entitled '' In Defense of the Bush,'' in which he accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, famously ending with the line ''"For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush."'' Wikisource article – ''In Defense of the Bush'' by Banjo Paterson


Publication details

After its initial publication in ''The Bulletin'' on 9 July 1892, the poem was then included in the following collections and anthologies: * '' In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses'', 1896 * ''Humorous Verses'' by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1941 * ''The World of Henry Lawson'' edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974 * ''The Collins Book of Australian Poetry'' edited by Rodney Hall, Collins, 1981 * ''A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900'' edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984 * ''Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse'' edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984 * ''The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse'' edited by Philip Neilson, Penguin, 1986 * ''Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology'' edited by John Leonard, Melbourne University Press, 1998 * ''The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry'' edited by John Leonard, Puncher & Wattmann, 2009


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* 1892 in Australian literature * 1892 in literature * The Bulletin Debate *
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Up the Country 1892 poems Poetry by Henry Lawson Bulletin Debate Works originally published in The Bulletin (Australian periodical)