"Up The Country" is a popular poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson.

[1] It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 9 July 1892, under the title "Borderland.

"[2] Its publication marked the start of the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson asserting contrasting views of the true nature of life in the Australian bush.

In Up The Country, Lawson recounts his trip to the barren and gloomy Australian bush, and criticises "City Bushmen" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticize bush life.

"[5] After its initial publication in The Bulletin on 9 July 1892, the poem was then included in the following collections and anthologies: