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Cover of Our Mat

Our Mat

Banjo Paterson

Length
33 min
Chapters
15
Language
English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Our Mat by A. B. Paterson.

This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 2019. ------

Banjo Paterson's speculations on a piece of prison craft. This poem references The Darlinghurst Gaol, a former Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. Australian poet Henry Lawson spent time incarcerated there during some of the turbulent years of his life and described the gaol as Starvinghurst Gaol due to meagre rations given to the inmates. It was closed in 1914 and has subsequently been repurposed to house the National Art School. (Wilipedia)

Chapters

From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens gutenberg.net.au), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).