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unusual facts about bush poet



Flag of the Southern Cross

Flag of the Southern Cross is a poem written in 1887 by Australian bush poet Henry Lawson.

Matthew Mullineux

Despite only playing in the first test, Mullineux was honoured when bush poet, Banjo Paterson wrote a poem about his playing prowess, entitled The Reverend Mullineux.


see also

Andrew Paterson

Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson, 1864–1941), Australian bush poet

Steve Ashley

In 1978 at the Rotterdam Folk Festival, Ashley met the Australian folk-rock band, The Bushwackers, whose leader, Dobe Newton asked Ashley to write some musical settings of poems by the deceased bush poet, Henry Lawson.