Episode Fourteen: Henry Lawson at Bourke’s Carriers’ Arms Hotel

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Henry Lawson’s Crumbs Podcast

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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 Fourteen: Henry Lawson at Bourke’s Carriers’ Arms Hotel

Henry Lawson’s Crumbs Podcast

35 minutes 8 seconds

3 years ago

Episode Fourteen: Henry Lawson at Bourke’s Carriers’ Arms Hotel

In a somewhat forlorn attempt to get his excessive drinking under control, in 1892 and 1893 Henry Lawson resided in Bourke in Outback New South Wales. One of Lawson’s favourite locations in Bourke was Watson Braithwaite’s Carriers’ Arms Hotel. The hotel served as the gathering place for many heavy-drinking, hard-fighting Bourke identities. Lawson used those people as characters for poetry and prose writing he set in the Carriers’ Arms Hotel.

Lawson works discussed in the episode:

When the ‘Army’ Prays for Watty. Originally published in the Bulletin 13 May 1893. Collected in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (February 1896).

Send Round the Hat. Originally published in Children of the Bush (July 1902).

That Pretty Girl in the Army. Originally published in Children of the Bush (July 1902).