Title:
Fire front : First Nations poetry and power today
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Publication Date:
2020
Publication Information:
St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : UQP, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
xiv, 178 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780702262722
Abstract:
"This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Sam Wagan Watson, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Archie Roach and Alexis Wright. Divided into five thematic sections, each one is introduced by an essay from a leading Aboriginal writer and thinker - Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Chelsea Bond, Evelyn Araluen and Steven Oliver - who reflects on the power of First Nations poetry with their own original contribution. This incredible book is a testament to the renaissance of First Nations poetry happening in Australia right now."--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: `Ancestor, you are exploding the wheelie bin' -- Essay: Dear Ancestor / Chelsea Bond -- Alexis Wright, Hey Ancestor! -- Lisa Bellear, Beautiful Yuroke Red River Gum -- Jeanine Leane, The Colour of Massacre -- Ali Cobby Eckermann, Unearth -- Natalie Harkin, Domestic -- Archie Roach, Took the Children Away -- Briggs (ft. Gurrumul Yunupingu), The Children Came Back -- Alice Eather, Yuya Karraburra (Fire Is Burning) -- Deborah Doorlak L. Moody, Bilya Kep -- Ruby Langford Ginibi, Black Woman -- Jack Davis, A Letter to the Shade of Charles Darwin -- `Despite what Dorothea has said about the sun scorched land' -- Essay: Too Little, Too Much / Evelyn Araluen -- Samuel Wagan Watson, The Grounding Sentence -- Lionel Fogarty, Caused Us To Be Collaborator -- Lionel Fogarty, Connoisseur -- Luke Patterson, Darkinjung Burning -- Alison Whittaker, Many Girls White Linen -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Municipal Gum -- Diwurruwurru (with Phillip Hall), Millad Mob Da Best! -- LornaMunro, YILAALU -- BU-GADI (Once Upon a Time in the Bay ofGadi) -- Alf Taylor, Moorditj Yorgah -- Kevin Gilbert, The New True Anthem -- Elizabeth Hodgson, Boots -- `I say rage and dreaming' -- Essay: Bleat Beneath a Blanket / Bruce Pascoe -- Joel Davison, Ngayrayagal Didjurigur (Soon Enough) -- Ellen van Neerven, Expert -- Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear Poetics -- Charmaine Papertalk Green, Honey to Lips Bottlebrush -- Elizabeth Jarrett, Invasion Day -- Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Native Tongue -- Steven Oliver, Why Not Be Brothers and Sisters? -- Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Got Ya -- Declan Furber Gillick, Nanna Emily's Poem (Mount Isa Cemetery 2014) -- Romaine Moreton, Are You Beautiful Today? -- Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi, Say My Name -- `Because we want it back, need it back, because they can' -- Essay: Lead You to the Shore / Steven Oliver -- Claire G. Coleman, I Am the Road -- Ken Canning/Burraga Gutya, Old Clever Woman -- Pansy Rose Napaljarri, The Changing Face of the Jukurrpa -- Paul Collis, Cult-charr Jammer -- Jim Everett, Move on Black -- Pauline Whyman, Chocolate Wrappers -- Yvette Holt, Custodial Seeds -- Tony Birch, Visiting -- Kevin Buzzacott, Lake Eyre Is Calling: Ankaku for Life -- Provocalz and Ancestress, Behind Enemy Lines -- `This I would tell you' -- Essay: Medicine In, Obligation Out / Ali Cobby Eckermann -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Son of Mine -- Elizabeth Walker, Grandfather of Mine -- Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, I Run ... -- Sachem Parkin-Owens, My Ancestors -- Dylan Voller, Justice for Youth -- Laniyuk, Remember -- Kirli Saunders, Wirritjiribin -- Raelee Lancaster, Haunted House -- Baker Boy (ft. Dallas Woods), Black Magic -- Maggie Walsh, Better Put the Billy On.
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Language:
English
