“If you know Bourke, You know Australia” – that was the poet’s claim,
Still there’s much about the place that is unknown just the same,
So we’re talking to the locals, in their home and at their work,
To try and find just what it is you know – If you know Bourke !”
Listen to the storiesJason Roweth – The Greenhand Rousabout
Jason Roweth recites Henry Lawson’s ‘Greenhand Rousabout’ in the historic Toorale Woolshed, where the poem originated – on the annual Poet’s Trek – Bourke, NSW. Part of the Festival of a Thousand Stories.
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