Our Mat
Author: first_name: Banjo
last_name: Paterson
Language: English
Year: 0

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Our Mat by A. B. Paterson.<br>
This was the Weekly Poetry project for  July 14, 2019.  <br> ------<br>
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 give