The City Bushman

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 nature of life in the Australian bush.
In The City Bushman, Lawson responds to Paterson's poem, In Defence of the Bush, quoting a number of phrases, and criticising each in turn.

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, 1896Humorous Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1941The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer edited Brian Kiernan, Currey O'Neil, 1982A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984The Penguin Book of Australian Satirical Verse edited by Philip Neilson, Penguin, 1986