Episode Twenty-Two: Talking with the Grandson of Henry Lawson’s mate, Jim Gordon Henry Lawson’s Crumbs Podcast

One of Henry Lawson’s best friends was Jim Gordon, who was also a poet who published regularly in the Bulletin and other similar forums for Bush writing.  Jim Gordon wrote under the pen-name, Jim Grahame. As had been the case with Lawson in 1920, Grahame was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Pension in 1947; Prime Minister Ben Chifley deciding it was due recognition of his contribution to Australian literature. Lawson and Gordon first met in Bourke in 1892, when Lawson was 25 and Gordon was 18. Late in 1892, they tramped from Bourke to Toorale shearing shed and back (a distance of approximately 300km). In early 1893, they tramped from Bourke to Hungerford and back (approximately 450km). Life took them in different directions and so they were subsequently separated for many years. Fortune brought them together again in 1916 in the newly established Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Once again, the two became inseparable. In this podcast episode, we speak with Jim Everett, who is the grandson of Jim Gordon.