Bush poets were Australian poets who wrote about Australian rural life during colonial times and about the Australian bush. For the restaurant chain, see Outback Steakhouse; for the station wagon, see Subaru Outback. ...
Australian bush poets include Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Henry Lawson (17 June 1867, Grenfell goldfields, New South Wales - 2 September 1922, Sydney) was an Australian writer and poet. ... Banjo Paterson. ...
Bush poetry readership and poets are obviously not only people with a particular job description or people in a particular region; bush poetry might be usefully, if problematically, termed working class pastoral.
Bush poetry might be compared to western American poetry from the 1880s into the 1930s which focussed on the deserts, grasslands, and prairies.
She was a poet of sufficient stature in Australia that she was able to submit an entire volume of poems to the leading poetry editor of the time and place.
Poets laureate are not political appointees; the selection is made by the Librarian of Congress, a post currently held by James H. Billington.
Bush said last Wednesday that it would be "inappropriate to turn a literary event into a political forum" and postponed the forum.
Former poets laureate Stanley Kunitz and Rita Dove were among those who refused to attend and Sam Hamill, a poet and editor of the highly regarded Copper Canyon Press, organized a protest to send anti-war poems and statements to the White House.
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