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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).
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By Henry Lawson’s Crumbs PodcastIn 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).