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Henry Lawson
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News and information on Australian penman Henry Lawson
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Recent Posts
Slim Dusty sings Lawson’s ‘A Word to Texas Jack’
Australian country musician turned several Henry lawson poems into songs. Here’s another example: ‘A Word to Texas Jack’. A Word to Texas Jack -- by Henry Lawson Texas Jack, you are amusin’. By Lord Harry, how I laughed When I ...
Henry Lawson’s Sad Australian Sunset
This was the ’sad Australian sunset’ looking west from Bourke cemetery on the eve of our re-enactment of Henry Lawson’s famous walk from Bourke to Hungerford. The cemetery was a setting in Lawson’s short story ‘The Uni...
Henry Lawson tribute by Slim Dusty
Among the poems of Henry Lawson that Slim Dusty put into song is ‘The Bill of the Ages’ which Slim renamed simply ‘Bill’ for his musical rendition. The Bill of the Ages by Henry Lawson He shall live to the end of this mad ol...
Henry Lawson in new Australian Literature Anthology
At the Australian Embassy in Washington DC yesterday, deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education Julia Gillard marked the US launch of a new anthology of Australia’s best literature, saying that it had the capacity to provide a window int...
Henry Lawson Statue View
Here’s a video of part of the are surrounding George Lambert’s statue of Henry Lawson in Sydney. It starts looking south-west to the Sydney city skyline then pans to the North to the staue of Lawson. ...
Henry Lawson: A Song of the Republic
Here’s an interesting video with some good information about Henry Lawson and his friend and contemporary, Banjo Paterson. It highlights Lawson’s and Paterson’s appearances on the Australian ten dollar notes and includes a good re...
