Bourke - Far North-West New South Wales

Bourke - Far North-West New South Wales

HOW DO YOU MOLD A MIND LIKE HENRY LAWSON'S - GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 32
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In 1892 a young writer Henry Lawson was sent to Bourke by the Bulletin editor J.F. Archibald to get a taste of outback life and to try to curb his heavy drinking. In Lawson's own words "I got £5 and a railway ticket from the Bulletin and went to Bourke. Painted, picked up in a shearing shed and swagged it for six months". The experience was to have a profound effect on the 25-year-old and his encounter with the harsh realities of bush life inspired much of his subsequent work. Lawson would later write "if you know Bourke you know Australia". In 1992 eight poems, written under a pseudonym and published in the Western Herald, were discovered in the Bourke library archives and confirmed to be Lawson's work. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke,_New_South_Wales
Gold Rush Stories Part 29 - What was the Lawson's property at Eurunderee like?
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A polymathic touring musician, film maker, historian and producer, for the past 8 years Kieran Wicks has navigated the Great Southern Land of Australia performing hundreds of shows to ravenous audiences, whilst simultaneously developing a vast catalogue of interviews, images and videos in the production of multiple formative docuseries including 'One Town at a Time', which records his musical journey, immersed in poignant, forgotten Australian history and poetry, in archives such as 'Gold Rush Stories' and 'Poetry of the Pioneers'.

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