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.
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)