Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child, credited to Katherine Mansfield, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 3, 2025. In her Journal, on January 22, 1916, Katherine Mansfield told her plans as her writer to her dead brother. She wanted to pay “a sacred debt” to her country, New Zealand, because “my brother and I were born there.” “Then,” she continued, “I want to write poetry.” from the INTRODUCTORY NOTE from Poems by Katherine Mansfield (1923)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child
• Author credits: Katherine Mansfield
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 21:33

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• children
• singing
• dancing

Track guide

1. 01 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by AL — 2:42
2. 02 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by BWC — 1:51
3. 03 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by DC — 1:40
4. 04 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by DL — 2:03
5. 05 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by DLS — 1:59
6. 06 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by FM — 2:02
7. 07 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by JBW — 1:43
8. 08 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by LCW — 1:58
9. 09 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by PFS — 1:56
10. 10 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by SP — 1:49
11. 11 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child - read by VLS — 1:50

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