Henry Lawson’s first full collection of verse, most of it first printed in the Sydney Bulletin. Swagmen tramp the Great Grey Plain, a drover’s sweetheart waits, gold-rush days roar back in memory, and in ‘Faces in the Street’ the city’s poor file past a window. The bush here is hard and hungry, and Lawson sings of mateship among those who survive it.
Essential reading for anyone drawn to Australian literature or the ballad tradition of the bush. Download the free EPUB.