Episode Thirteen: Following Henry Lawson's Outback Tracks

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Henry Lawson’s Crumbs Podcast

26 episodes

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This podcast series coincides with the 100-year anniversary of Henry Lawson’s death. We explore Lawson through the eyes of a Lawson scholar and through one "meeting" Lawson for the first time. The podcast includes events from Lawson’s life and examination of his works. The series is called the Henry Lawson’s Crumbs Podcast because of a newspaper column Lawson wrote early in his career—the column was called Country Crumbs and so, borrowing “Crumbs” from that title we recognise we cannot discuss all aspects of Lawson’s life and work but, rather, we focus on interesting and significant crumbs.

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Episode Thirteen: Following Henry Lawson's Outback Tracks

Henry Lawson’s Crumbs Podcast

45 minutes 59 seconds

3 years ago

Episode Thirteen: Following Henry Lawson's Outback Tracks

Brothers Barrie and Gregory Bryan remain the only people known to have accomplished complete re-enactments of Henry Lawson's two Outback treks back o' Bourke. In January 2011, they became the first people ever to recreate Henry Lawson's 1893 450km walk from Bourke to Hungerford and back. Despite declaring that he not only never wanted to walk in the Outback again, but that, indeed, he never wanted to see the Outback again, just 16 months later, Greg was back in Bourke with his brother. This time, in July 2012, the two became the first people ever to recreate Lawson's 1892 300km walk from Bourke to Toorale woolshed and back. In this episode of the Henry Lawson's Crumbs Podcast, we are joined by Barrie “Baz” Bryan. The two brothers talk with Anne-Marie Hanson about their Outback experiences chasing the ghost of Henry Lawson.

Some of Barrie Bryan’s favourite Lawson works:

Poetry:

Andy’s Gone with Cattle. Originally published in Australian Town and Country Journal 13 October 1888. Collected in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (February 1896).

The Christ of the ‘Never’. Originally published in The Bulletin 16 July 1898. Collected in Verses Popular and Humorous (December 1900).

Past Carin’. Originally published in Australian Magazine 30 May 1899. Collected in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (February 1896).

The Babies in the Bush. Originally published in The Bulletin 8 December 1900.

Prose:

The Drover’s Wife. Originally published in The Bulletin 23 July 1892. Collected in Short Stories in Prose and Verse (December 1894).

“Stragglers”: A Sketch Out Back. Originally published in The Bulletin 27 May 1893. Collected in While the Billy Boils (August 1896).

An Old Mate of Your Father’s. Originally published in The Worker 24 June 1893. Collected in While the Billy Boils (August 1896).

A Double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek. Originally published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Monthly February 1901. Collected in Joe Wilson and His Mates (November 1901).

The Babies in the Bush. Originally published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Monthly April 1901. Collected in Joe Wilson and His Mates (November 1901).

“Shall We Gather at the River.” Originally published in Children of the Bush (July 1902).