Bush Verses

Many people have written about the fabulous alpine region, and others have expressed its majestical beauty through verse. There is one man, who lived in the High Country, wrote about its beauty, mined in its mountainous rivers and camped in many of the huts... "Billy" Wye.

William James Wye was a poet of great merit, a man of whom 'The Bulletin' said, in the 1920s, "Mr Wye is probably the greatest of all horse poets, greater than Henry Lawson"!

About Billy Wye

Several of his verses