The Teams

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The Teams is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in the Australian Town and Country Journal on 21 December 1889.^[1] It was later published in the poet's poetry collection In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses in 1896.

Illustration from original publication of "The Teams"

Critical reception

In a review of the poet's collection In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses a writer in Freeman's Journal (Sydney) stated that "If one piece were to be chosen as an example of Mr. Lawson's quality as a writer of true bush ballads, the best piece is 'The Teams'".^[2]

Further publications

• In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson (1896)
• The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1913)
• Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (1918)
• The Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch (1918)
• New Song in an Old Land edited by Rex Ingamells (1943)
• Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie (1963)
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
• Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 edited by Adrian Mitchell and Brian Elliott(1970)
• Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1973)
• The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1974)
• The Collins Book of Australian Poetry compiled by Rodney Hall (1981)
• The Essential Henry Lawson edited by Brian Kiernan (1982)
• A Treasury of Colonial Poetry (1982)
• A Camp-Fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin (1984)
• My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer (1985)
• Henry Lawson: An Illustrated Treasury compiled by Glenys Smith (1985)
• A Collection of Australian Bush Verse (1989)
• A Treasury of Bush Verse by G. A. Wilkes (1991)
• Australian Bush Poems (1991)
• Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney (2001)

See also

• 1889 in poetry
• 1889 in literature
• 1889 in Australian literature
• Australian literature

References