Poetry Cafe 126: Australia (2)

Playlist: texts read & music played

1. Percy Grainger: Gumsuckers‘ March
2. Dorothea MacKellar: My Country (1911)
3. Peter Sculthorpe: Sonatina, 1st movement
4. James Vance Marshall: Walkabout
5. A.E. Housman: The Land of Lost Content
6. Archie Roach: Charcoal Lane
7. Jack Davis: The Drifters
8. Men at Work: Down Under
9. (traditional) A Pub with No Beer
10. David Malouf: An Ordinary Evening
11. Kristian Benton: Wii-ma-li (To Light a Fire)
12. Bill Bryson: from ‚Down Under‘
13. David Campbell: The Stockman
14. Gurrumul: Bapa (Father)
15. Oscar Wilde: from ‚The Nightingale and the Rose‘
16. Peter Allen: I Still Call Australia Home
17. Rolf Harris: Tie me kangaroo down, sport, ….
18. Clive James: The River in the Sky
19. William Hart-Smith: Kangaroos
20. D.H. Lawrence: Kangaroo
21. Bee Gees: Tragedy
22. Judith Wright: Country Town
23. Henry Lawson: How the Land Was Won
24. Kenneth Slessor: Country Town
25. Nan MacDonald: The Lyre-Bird
26. Les Murray: Cherries from Young
27. Charles Harpur: Noon in the Australian Forest
28. Nevil Shute: from ‚A Town Like Alice‘
29. W.T. Goodge: The Australian Slanguage
30. Ballad of Jim Jones
31. Kristian Benton: Wandabaa Murrun (Spirit Alive)