Henry Lawson: Collected Poems: Volume One
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This first volume gathers 139 of his poems, written between 1887 and 1922 and arranged alphabetically from “A Backward Glance” to “The English Ne’er-do-well”. It includes “Faces in the Street”, “Andy’s Gone with Cattle”, “Shearers’ Song”, “Golden Gully”, “Mallacoota Bar”, “Stand by the Engines” and “Posts and Rails”: ballads of the bush and the city, comic verse, and poems of protest, love and war.
Each poem is newly typeset with its original line breaks and indents and its date, and the texts are reproduced as originally published. The volume is illustrated with eight period images from Australian library collections, including Frank Mahony’s drawing of Lawson, a caricature by Will Dyson, and an 1890 engraving of the wreck of the Quetta, with May Moore’s studio portrait of Lawson on the title page.
Henry Lawson (1867–1922) was born at Grenfell, New South Wales. He became one of the best-known writers of colonial Australia and was the first Australian writer to be given a state funeral.
Volume One of Henry Lawson: Collected Poems, from Metro Classics, Heritage Series.
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Henry Lawson (1867–1922) was born on the goldfields at Grenfell, New South Wales, the son of a Norwegian-born miner and Louisa Lawson, the poet, publisher and campaigner for women’s rights. Partly deaf from the age of fourteen, he grew up in the bush near Mudgee and began publishing verse in The Bulletin in 1887 with “A Song of the Republic”. A journey to Bourke and the back country in 1892 shaped the stories of While the Billy Boils (1896), and he went on to write some of the best-loved ballads and short stories in Australian literature, among them “The Drover’s Wife” and “Faces in the Street”. He spent time in New Zealand and London before returning to Sydney, where he died in 1922. He was the first Australian writer to be given a state funeral, and his portrait later appeared on the Australian ten-dollar note.