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
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "The Man from Ironbark". It also contains the poet's first two poems that featured in The Bulletin Debate, a famous dispute in "The Bulletin" magazine from 1892-93 between Paterson and Henry Lawson. The collection includes 48 poems by the author that are