Faces in the Street single work   poetry   "They lie, the men who tell us, for reasons of their own,"
  • Author:agent Henry Lawson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lawson-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Faces in the Street
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First line of verse: "They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone"
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    y separately published work icon A Golden Shanty : Australian Stories and Sketches in Prose and Verse Sydney : Bulletin , 1890 Z465716 1890 anthology poetry short story prose Sydney : Bulletin , 1890 pg. 135-138
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    y separately published work icon Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From the Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson Michael Cook (editor), Seven Hills : Little Hills Press , 2004 Z1266972 2004 anthology poetry Seven Hills : Little Hills Press , 2004 pg. 157-160
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    y separately published work icon Lawson Henry Lawson , John Schumann (composer), Australia : Bombora Music , 2005 Z1217527 2005 selected work poetry Australia : Bombora Music , 2005
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    y separately published work icon Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Nicholas Jose (editor), Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), Anita Heiss (editor), David McCooey (editor), Peter Minter (editor), Nicole Moore (editor), Elizabeth Webby (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1590615 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story (taught in 23 units)

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    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    pg. 263-266

Works about this Work

From the Archive : Phillip Street Peter FitzSimons , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The (Sydney) Magazine , February no. 117 2013; (p. 17)
A Tribute to Henry Lawson Yvonne Pick , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Scope , April vol. 58 no. 3 2012; (p. 13)
Morphological Essence : Measurement Inexact, Yet Not Imprecise Stuart Grant , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 223-235)
Henry Lawson Peter Kirkpatrick , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Greats 2008; (p. 49-52)
In Lawson's Defence Geoffrey Lennie , 2004 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , May no. 137 2004; (p. 22)
Henry Lawson : Australian Poet of Revolt A. F. Howells , 1938 single work criticism
— Appears in: Point , October vol. 1 no. 2 1938; (p. 16-20)
In Lawson's Defence Geoffrey Lennie , 2004 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , May no. 137 2004; (p. 22)
Seminar on Henry Lawson Robert M. Slade , 1982 single work essay
— Appears in: IMP , September - December 1982; (p. 71) Looking Back (1988-1788) : The Bicentennial Book of the Rockhampton Writers' Club 1988; (p. 13)
A Singer with a Vision : The Battle Songs of Henry Lawson 1940 single work column
— Appears in: The Cairns Post , 16 August 1940; (p. 2)
Henry Lawson was a visionary poet whose poetry foretold how the Australian identity would be forged in war.
Henry Lawson Peter Kirkpatrick , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Greats 2008; (p. 49-52)
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