Title page of G. H. Gibson’s Southerly Busters, published in 1878

Poet

G. H. Gibson

1846–1921

George Herbert Gibson, who wrote as ‘Ironbark’, was an Anglo-Australian solicitor and public servant whose humorous verse drew on colonial work, travel and bush life.

Southerly Busters (1878) · public domain book image · Public domain in Australia

5 poems

Poems in this collection

Comic observation, social satire and the rough theatre of colonial life.