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The great bush legends

Storytelling, movement and the romantic bush

These are the poems that turned hard rides, distant roads and ordinary bush characters into stories Australians kept telling. Begin with Paterson’s great crowd-pleasers, then follow the tradition into mustering, boundary riding, schooldays and life on the track. Some are heroic, some comic and some quietly observant—but all show how poetry helped the bush become part of Australia’s shared imagination.