Banjo Paterson [[Category:19th-century Australian writers]] [[Category:19th-century poets]] [[Category:20th-century Australian poets]] [[Category:Australian male poets]] [[Category:The Man from Snowy River]] [[Category:Australian male writers]] [[Category:19th-century Australian short story writers]] Banjo Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial
A Voice from the Town A Voice from the Town A Voice from the Town is a poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in "The Bulletin" magazine on 20 October 1894. In "Up The Country," Lawson had criticised "The City Bushman" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticise bush life. Paterson, in turn, accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, famously ending with the line ""For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush."" This exchange sparked what is known as the Bulletin Debate, mainly between Paterson