Out Back (poem)

"Out Back" (1893) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson.^[1]

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]

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]

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]

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• 1893 in poetry