Faraway Downs fantasy resonates close to home Nov 23, 2008
The poetry that gave us the droll, lyrical and fatalistic Australia observed by Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson celebrated the people on the land, the graziers, the drovers and the wanderers. Such writing memorialised the long drought and the post-Depression poverty of rural Australia. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
A poetic return Nov 22, 2008
In common with Rose and Brooks, Grant has limited himself to a poem a person, lest the likes of Henry Lawson and Les Murray crowd others out. He has also chosen poems that he reckons to be "distinctly funny". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A poem that captures the Luck country Nov 15, 2008
Her ashes are interred in the family vault in Waverley Cemetery, with its 50,000 graves and 80,000 internments, including those of literature's Henry Lawson, poetry's Henry Kendall, The Bulletin's founder, J.F. Archibald, cricket's Victor Trumper and swimming's Sarah "Fanny" Durack, iconic Australians all six of them ... "It seems paradoxical that Australia's most famous poem, set far from the city, was penned by a delicate, young socialite, the daughter of a wealthy doctor and politician who... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Monumental makeovers Nov 9, 2008
Borglum created the Aycock monument, as well as the monument for Aycock's Capitol Square neighbor, Henry Lawson Wyatt, an Edgecombe County Confederate soldier who was the first to die in battle in the Civil War. Wyatt's monument was dedicated in 1912, and Aycock's statue was unveiled on the square in 1924. (News & Observer)
Sweet smell lingers after G-G's soothing visit Oct 6, 2008
Bob Hawke made the trip, as did Mother Theresa, the former governor-general Michael Jeffery and the poet Henry Lawson. Asked why the town garnered so much attention, a local council worker, Bruce Gray, summed it up. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The Stallion Of Death Sep 12, 2008
" Fairley then found himself in Bourke, where Henry Lawson was sent to dry out. Instead, the pub opposite the poet's hotel closed down, moved into his digs and "he was totally off his chops the whole time", Fairley explains. So playwright Fairley decided to explore what it would have been like to start a bush legend - just make up one big, fat lie - by taking advantage of the drunken bush poets who went from house to house in 1890s Australia making a living from immortalising their host families... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Business travel: Movement at the station Aug 19, 2008
Just before dinner in the homestead, an hour's drive west of Parkes, he slips on his Akubra and conjures up Henry Lawson one minute, Banjo Paterson the next: "There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, that the colt from old Regret had got away ...". As bookends to a day in the bush you'd be hard pressed to find anything better. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Bullet locked, loaded and set to fire in west Aug 17, 2008
Before a crowd of 6000, up 1500 on last year, the "village that loves a drink, a punt and a party" as Henry Lawson once wrote, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Trainer Paul Banks travelled from Bendigo to finish runner-up with Merry Spinster in the Louth Handicap but was victorious with $13 chance Armani Black in the Louth Maiden. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Outback sale could put water in federal tank Aug 16, 2008
In December 1892 Henry Lawson slaved away in the 46-stand Toorale shearing shed for a month and the experience forever influenced his writing about the hardship of life in the bush and how important mateship was to survive there ... Henry Lawson once famously told a friend: "If you know Bourke you know Australia." ... Henry Lawson, The Storm That Is To Come (1904). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Jules Franois Archibald Feb 2, 2008
The Archibald Prize is Born; Archibald commissioned to paint a portrait of poet Henry Lawson. Later his fascination with portraiture led him to leave money in his will for an annual portrait prize. (Suite101.com)
Bully knocked out cold - what a crying shame Jan 26, 2008
In its roaring days, the "Bully" published the likes of Steele Rudd, Banjo Paterson, Shaw Neilson, Mary Gilmore, Norman Lindsay and, above all, that sad and sozzled genius Henry Lawson, who first appeared as a 17-year-old poet with The Wreck Of The Derry Castle in 1887. "Lawson was then a lanky youth," Archibald wrote later. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The Bulletin had 'em all talking Jan 26, 2008
It celebrated the Australian vernacular and found and then nurtured generations of our finest writers -- from Banjo Paterson through to Henry Lawson and Steele Rudd. Breaker Morant would have remained a small asterisk in Australian history were it not for his poetry published in the magazine's pages. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
A voice that bellowed, cajoled and caressed Jan 24, 2008
Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Steel Rudd, Barbara Baynton and Norman Lindsay were just some of the writers and cartoonists to grace the magazine. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature described The Bulletin as initially economically and racially isolationist, and politically and culturally anti-British. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Bush bard inspires hope Dec 26, 2007
He declared Hartin "has become today's Henry Lawson" with his poem about a farmer driven to the brink of suicide. And he told MPs that the stresses caused by drought were killing his rural constituents at a horrifying rate. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Why every week is Bush Week Sep 29, 2007
As the 19th century closed and Australia approached nationhood, the legend was furiously romanticised and seared into the minds of urban residents by writers such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson and artists such as Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin. "Australians generally became actively conscious of the distinctive "bush" ethos and of its value as an expression and symbol of nationalism," Ward said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Here There, Now Then Aug 4, 2007
He is a modern Henry Lawson whose music is infused with a "love of country" that makes it unique to this continent. He has felt the rhythms rising from the land and has turned them into timeless music. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Bourke's backbone struggles to keep town's head up Jul 26, 2007
WHEN the poet Henry Lawson walked over the bridge across the Darling River at North Bourke more than a century ago, it inspired his belief that irrigation was the answer to the outback's woes. But when the Queensland water engineer Steve Posselt paddled under the bridge this week, he was thinking that irrigation had become the cause of much of the outback's woes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Bouncer sends poet on his way May 30, 2007
Oi mate, move along a fibreglass security guard replaces a statue of Henry Lawson in the Domain ... FOR 76 years Henry Lawson, his swagman friend and his dog have watched over visitors taking the stroll through the Domain to Mrs Macquaries Point ... "When we were asked by the gallery if we would lend them Henry Lawson, initially I was a bit reticent," the trust's executive director, Tim Entwisle, admitted as he watched the exchange. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Contrary to opinion: it's fine by the minister Feb 19, 2007
" His priority, before the May budget, is to finalise a film-industry package aimed at increasing private investment in film and TV. The package, thought to be worth $60 million, may involve the merger of the Australian Film Commission and Film Finance Corporation Australia. Favourite things Books: He owns at least 3000, among them about 150 old or rare editions. Latest book read: the final volume of Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. Movies: Billy Elliot "for the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
