Who was Henry Lawson?

To some, he is the bloke who used to be on the ten dollar note. But go back 100 years, when there was no TV or even radio in Australia, when there was almost nothing to read (especially in the bush) but the weekly Bulletin magazine, and Lawson was more than famous, he was the countrys living superstar. It was a time that Australian culture was full of poetry, probably more so than anywhere in the English-speaking world.

A visitor to these shores remarked with surprise to Dulcie Deamer (Sydneys Queen of Bohemia), that all the Australians are poets! From the suburbs to the drovers camps, poetry was read and recited by candle and kerosene light, and the poets were household names like todays media celebrities. In 1922, Australias national poet and short story writer died in the garden of his little cottage at Abbotsford by Sydney Harbour; he left on his desk an unfinished article entitled Deadly in Earnest and Casually Australian.

About a year before, a director named Beaumont Smith had ... more.

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