Australian Poetry – Dorothea Mackellar

Eastside’s Arts Dr Margaux Dombkins presents Episode Two in our series on ‘Australian Poets – Old & New’ in conversation with author and poet, Libby Hathorn. Our second episode features Dorothea Mackellar (1885 – 1968) who is best known for her poem My Country.

Hear Dorothea herself reciting ‘My Country’ written when she was a homesick nineteen year-old on holiday in England and which she originally titled ‘Core of my Heart’. Dorothea Mackellar’s poems read and discussed include: ‘Colour’, ‘The Dreamer’, ‘Dawn’, and ‘In a Southern Garden’.

Dorothea Mackellar’s verse is now regarded by many Australians as the universal statement of our Nation’s connection to the land.

YOU CAN LISTEN TO EPISODE TWO FEATURING DOROTHEA MACKELLAR:

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Margaux