Heart of Spring: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Heart of Spring, credited to Shaw Neilson, 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 recording of Heart of Spring by Shaw Neilson. Read in English by Kay Williams; Alan Mapstone; mleigh; Enneos88; Louise Poulsom; lapoveca; Larry Wilson; Cassandra; Bruce Kachuk; Lynda Marie Neilson; Katrina Dixon; Rebecca Eden Walker; Andrew Gaunce; John Pederson; cadwallader; SmilingJade; yaumixx; mamatiff82 John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was nine years of age. The boy had little schooling and early went to work in the hard way of the Bush. His poems were long meditated and slowly brought to utterance. His equipment was a few books well conned, and the strong blood and high heart of his Scottish ancestry. (From the Book's Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Heart of Spring
• Author credits: Shaw Neilson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 1:40:52

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• lyric poetry
• australian poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 00 - Preface — 4:41
2. 01 - Heart of Spring! — 1:46
3. 02 - Green Singer — 1:11
4. 03 - Song Be Delicate — 0:55
5. 04 - Petticoat Green — 3:23
6. 05 - Greeting — 0:54
7. 06 - The Land Where I Was Born — 2:27
8. 07 - The Sun Is Up — 1:06
9. 08 - Pale Neighbour — 1:17
10. 09 - To A Blue Flower — 1:22
11. 10 - Old Nell Dickerson — 3:02
12. 11 - Bush Scene — 1:11
13. 12 - Julie Callaway — 2:35
14. 13 - Lowan's Nest — 1:03
15. 14 - Old Granny Sullivan — 4:27
16. 15 - May — 1:05
17. 16 - Maggie Tulliver — 1:52
18. 17 - Break of Day — 1:05
19. 18 - Little Dead Milliner — 2:10
20. 19 - "The Day Is Thine" — 1:52
21. 20 - Sheedy Was Dying — 2:23
22. 21 - The Eyes of Little Charlotte — 2:20
23. 22 - Meeting of Sighs — 1:07
24. 23 - Old Violin — 0:43

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