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13 unusual facts about Henry Lawson


Cunnamulla

Cunnamulla is the main setting for Henry Lawson's short story "The Hypnotised Township" from his anthology The Rising of the Court, and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse.

Flag of the Southern Cross

Flag of the Southern Cross is a poem written in 1887 by Australian bush poet Henry Lawson.

Freedom on the Wallaby

"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in the Worker in Brisbane, 16 May 1891.

Harry John Lawson

:Not to be confused with Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet.

Henry Lawson

Falkiner, Suzanne (1992) Wilderness (The Writers' Landscape), Sydney, Simon and Schuster

Hungerford, Queensland

In 1892-3, Henry Lawson visited the town and wrote a short story named after it.

John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew

The band provided the music for "Lawson", a one-man stage show by Max Cullen based on the life of Henry Lawson.

Lamont Young

A 1910 article, "Bermagui - In a Strange Sunset", by Henry Lawson published in The Bulletin, describes a steamer journey from Bermagui to Sydney.

Max Cullen

Since 2007 Cullen has also been performing "Lawson", a one-man show based on the life of Australian poet Henry Lawson.

Nelson Illingworth

Illingworth was one of the seven 'heptarchs' of the Dawn and Dusk Club of which Australian writer Henry Lawson and other notable Sydney bohemians were members around 1898.

Rankin's dragon

The specific epithet is a reference to the Australian author Henry Lawson.

Steve Ashley

In 1978 at the Rotterdam Folk Festival, Ashley met the Australian folk-rock band, The Bushwackers, whose leader, Dobe Newton asked Ashley to write some musical settings of poems by the deceased bush poet, Henry Lawson.

Tex Morton

This approach was followed by other Australian country artists who followed in his footsteps, such as Buddy Williams and Slim Dusty, leading to a particular genre of country music - the Australian bush ballad, which was also influenced by the turn-of-the-century poetry of 'Banjo' Patterson and Henry Lawson.


Circus Animals

Critic Toby Creswell described Circus Animals as, "a really extraordinary piece of work, as though John Steinbeck, Henry Lawson, Manning Clarke and Jerry Lee Lewis formed a band."

Newfoundland English

Such features can be seen in older popular literature, such as C.J. Dennis's The Sentimental Bloke and Henry Lawson's writings.

The bush

The bush was revered as a source of national ideals by the likes of poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, and contemporaneous painters in the Heidelberg School, namely Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.

The Henry Lawson Festival

The Henry Lawson Festival is an arts festival held annually on the June long weekend in Grenfell, New South Wales, a town in the central west New South Wales, Australia—the birthplace of Henry Lawson.

Zora Wolfová

Her translations of individual stories by Edith Pargeter, Henry Lawson, Alan Marshall, Vance Palmer, Doris Lessing, Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, Hal Porter, and the story titled Dead Roses from the book The Burnt Ones by Patrick White have been published in Czech literary magazine Světová literatura World Literature.