The Skyline Riders and Other Verses

By Henry Lawson

"Against the light of a dawning white, My Skyline Riders stand, There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead, And the selfish wrongs of a land; There are hurrying feet of fools to repeat, The follies of Nineteen Eight, But darkly still on each distant hill, My riders watch and wait." Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". 'The Skyline Riders and Other Verses' is a collection of some of his poems, featuring vivid descriptions of the Australian bush experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 9, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338082022

Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson was born in Grenfell, NSW, in 1867. At 14 he became totally deaf, an affliction which many have suggested rendered his world all the more vivid and subsequently enlivened his later writing. After a stint of coach painting, he edited a periodical, The Republican, and began writing verse and short stories. His first work of short fiction appeared in the Bulletin in 1888. He travelled and wrote short fiction and poetry throughout his life and published numerous collections of both even as his marriage collapsed and he descended into poverty and mental illness. He died in 1922, leaving his wife and two children.

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