Fire front : First Nations poetry and power today / edited by Alison Whittaker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whittaker, Alison, (editor).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian essays--21st century.

Australian essays.

Australian essays--Aboriginal Australian authors.

Australian poetry--Aboriginal Australian authors.

Australian poetry.

Aboriginal Australian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2020.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780702262722

0702262722

0702263885

9780702263880

OCLC:

1141451545