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Fine Poets talks about being an Australian poetry publisher In this article, Fine Poets talks about the latest Jack Thompson recordings of Henry Lawson poetry and short stories. I first read The Loaded Dog when I was in Grade Four at Altona Primary School. It was in the Fourth Grade Reader and despite not actually loving it at the time, the story and images have stayed with me all these years. I guess that is the mark of a great writer. His work affected me at the time, even though I wasn’t aware of it. The memory however never went away. I prefer The Drover’s Wife as a story, which I read subsequently, but The Loaded Dog remains firmly etched nevertheless. Why is it so? In later life, I have read Lawson’s poetry. These are my favourites: The Lights of Cobb and Co, The Fire At Ross’s Farm, Scots of the Riverina, The Wander-Light, Out Back, The Shame of Going Back, Faces In The Street, The Things We Dare Not Tell, The Shearer’s Dream, The Free Selector’s Daughter, Taking His Chance, The Night Train and After All. I also like the story of young Harry Dale the Drover, the correct title often eludes me in favour of the lasting image of the horse trotting home without Harry in the saddle and his sweetheart who waits for the sound of the clip clop, clip, clop only to presumably realize at some point, outside the poem, that Harry is not in the saddle. I am speaking from memory here, the images conjured up have always been cinematic and that is what my memory recalls. Jack Thompson reading The Poems of Banjo Paterson, the Poems of CJ Dennis, the poems of Henry Lawson and shortly the Poems of Lewis Carroll.
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