Our Mat: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Mat, credited to Andrew Barton Paterson, 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 15 recordings of Our Mat by Andrew Barton Paterson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 2019. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Caitlin Buckley; Craig Franklin; ChadH94; Cornel Nemes; Greg Giordano; Hopeforce1; Jennifer Stearns; KHand; Lee Ann Howlett; Larry Wilson; Shelly Pinnock; Skip Gaul; Tomas Peter and tovarisch. 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.( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Mat
• Author credits: Andrew Barton Paterson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 32:33

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• philosophy
• Crime
• prison
• craft

Track guide

1. 01 - Our Mat - Read by BK — 2:28
2. 02 - Our Mat - Read by CB — 1:40
3. 03 - Our Mat - Read by CF — 2:03
4. 04 - Our Mat - Read by CJPH — 1:45
5. 05 - Our Mat - Read by CN — 3:07
6. 06 - Our Mat - Read by GG — 2:19
7. 07 - Our Mat - Read by HU — 2:27
8. 08 - Our Mat - Read by JSS — 1:50
9. 09 - Our Mat - Read by KJH — 2:05
10. 10 - Our Mat - Read by LAH — 2:05
11. 11 - Our Mat - Read by LCW — 1:57
12. 12 - Our Mat - Read by SCP — 2:05
13. 13 - Our Mat - Read by SKP — 2:05
14. 14 - Our Mat - Read by TP — 2:05
15. 15 - Our Mat - Read by VB — 2:31

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