Lawson's Australia (Captioned)

This video looks at Lawson through the poems he wrote at various stages of his life and gives a deep insight into Lawson’s complex character. What makes Henry Lawson a powerful writer is that he tapped his impoverished childhood and unhappy adult life to produce poetry and prose of great beauty. By walking hundreds of miles across the continent of Australia, he developed a unique understanding of the outback men and women and his writing captures the nature of the tough breed of people who settled in a harsh, unforgiving land.

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Credits

co-producer

Fred Dumar

Jim Brown

director

Michael Dickinson

Duration

00:57:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324668

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Closed captioning

Literature → Australian literature

Literature → Lawson, Henry,1867-1922

Literature → Poetry

People → Lawson, Henry,1867-1922

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1988

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