The Latest Breaking News from Henry Lawson

In the late 1920s, poet Mary Gilmore – the woman on the A$10 note – declared she’d encountered only two instances of “genius” during her four decades in Australian literature. The first was a man who remains a household name: Henry Lawson, bush poet, author of iconic stories like The…

The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work

Most of us know Henry Lawson and Judith Wright are icons of Australian literature. But it’s less well known that they were both disabled.

The origins of this mysterious 'creature' date back to a cold wet Monday afternoon in the mid-1980s when a larger than normal crowd had gathered in the Bowning Hotel.