Aboriginal country / Lisa Bellear ; edited by Jen Jewel Brown.
Aboriginal country / Lisa Bellear ; edited by Jen Jewel Brown.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Crawley, WA : UWA Publishing, 2018.
Call Numbers
H 2018/4383
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
92 pages ; 21 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Aboriginal Country -- Dear Dja Baby Boori -- To no-one: And Mary did time -- Ruby was never seen again -- Poor Pretty Polly -- They named me King Billy -- The Rapist -- Love's Polished Floor -- Break the Cycle -- Mr Prime Minister (of Australia) -- Beautiful Yuroke Red River Gum -- Who hears our chi...
Wailing and Listing of Clans, Language Groups, Nations -- Warriors without Treaties -- Imagined Reality -- Conversations (aka unfinished business) -- Heart to Heart.
Publication information
Publisher
Crawley, WA : UWA Publishing, 2018.
Series
Place of Publication
Western Australia
Date Published
2018.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples - as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first time I was struck by its power. We are on Abo...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Aboriginal country / Lisa Bellear ; edited by Jen Jewel Brown.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
UWAP poetry series
Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
©2018.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
H 2018/4383
Record Identifier
74VKVQkBPMdg
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVQkBPMdg
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9781742589756 paperback
DDC
A821.4
MMS ID
991024198413002626
