Out Back (poem)
1893 poem by Australian writer Henry Lawson
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"Out Back" (1893) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson.[1]
| "Out Back" | |
|---|---|
| by Henry Lawson | |
| First published in | The Bulletin |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 30 September 1893 |
| Lines | 40 |
| Full text | |
 Out Back at Wikisource | |
It was originally published in The Bulletin on 30 September 1893[2] and subsequently reprinted in several of the author's collections, other periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.[1]
Critical reception
In a review of In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses in The Sydney Morning Herald a reviewer referred to the poem's "pitiless realism".[3]
Reviewing the same volume in The South Australian Register a reviewer called the poem a "powerful piece of realism".[4]
Publication history
After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:
- The Worker, 15 December 1894[5]
- In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1900[6]
- The Queenslander, 14 December 1901[7]
- An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1907[8]
- The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909[9]
- Selected Poems of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1918[10]
- Winnowed Verse by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1924[11]
- Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stephens and George Mackaness, Cornstalk Publishing, 1925[12]
- New Song in an Old Land edited by Rex Ingamells, 1943[13]
- Out Back and Other Poems by Henry Lawson, W. H. Honey, 1943[14]
- Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1946[15]
- A Treasury of Colonial Poetry, Currawong, 1982[16]
- A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984[17]
- A Collection of Australian Bush Verse, Peter Antill-Rose, 1989[18]
- An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse edited by Jim Haynes, ABC Books, 2002[19]