The Sliprails and the Spur

While reviewing The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens a writer in The Western Mail noted that this poem, among others in the anthology, represents "Australian bush life in a way to delight those who know it by experience, and are a means of interpretation to the city man". In an essay outlining Lawson's career and work, the reviewer "Wayfarer" called this poem a "nugget of pure Australian gold", and asked "Is there in Australian literature a more poignantly beautiful piece than this?" ==Publication history==

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows: • In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1900 • An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1907 • The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1909 • Selected Poems of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1918 • The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch, Oxford University Press, 1924 • Winnowed Verse by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1924 • Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stephens and George Mackaness, Cornstalk Publishing, 1925 • ''The Australian Women's Mirror'', 5 January 1926, p37 • An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927 • New Song in an Old Land edited by Rex Ingamells, 1943 • Out Back and Other Poems by Henry Lawson, W. H. Honey, 1943 • From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964 • Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Ure Smith, 1973 • The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974 • ''The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer'' edited Brian Kiernan, Currey O'Neil, 1982 • A Treasury of Colonial Poetry, Currawong, 1982 • A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984 • Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984 • The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss, Penguin, 1993 • The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems edited by Jennifer Strauss, Oxford University Press, 1993 • Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology edited by John Leonard, Oxford University Press, 1998 • The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Leonard, Puncher & Wattmann, 2009 • Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, University of NSW Press, 2011 ==See also==