'Award winning stories and verse in the Lawson tradition from the Greenfell Henry Lawson Festival 1960-1981 collected and edited by Hilarie Lindsay.
'The anthology brings together thirty-seven of Australia's best known writers. Each piece of work won a statuette and was judged the best of its year in the Grenfell Henry Lawson competitions for prose and verse over the past twenty-one years.
'The stories range over many levels of Australian Society. All are told with a rare insight into humans nature, with compassion and humour, by such master craftsmen as Gwen Kelly, Frank Moorehouse, James MacQueen and others' (Publication summary)
Dedication: For Bertha - only daughter of Henry Lawson.
Epigraph: As epigraph, a passage from Lawson's poem 'Bertha'.
Also, on the following page, another:
'...you were born on Grenfell goldfield
and you won't get over that.'
From 'Grenfell to my Spirit'.
