Up the Country

Up The Country is a popular poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 9 July 1892, under the title Borderland, and started the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson about the true nature of life in the Australian bush.

For the novel by Miles Franklin, see Up the Country (novel).

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.[1][2]

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." [3]

Publication details
  • First published The Weekly Bulletin, 9 July 1892
  • Source: In The Days When The World Was Wide, And Other Stories,' 1892
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See also

References
  1. Wikisource article - Up the Country by Henry Lawson
  2. Henry Lawson: Australian Writer Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal
  3. Wikisource article - In Defense of the Bush by Banjo Paterson
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