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Brenda Saunders reviews Yimbama by Ken Canning

October 3, 2015
Yimbama by Ken Canning Vagabond Press ISBN 978-1-922181-43-5 Reviewed by BRENDA SAUNDERS   The poetry in this collection covers the full range of social and cultural conditions facing Aboriginal people today. Burraga Gutya writes of imprisonment, mental illness, domestic violence, dislocation and the injustice due to racism or ignorance. On the back cover notes to […]
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Christine Regan reviews Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neerven

September 21, 2015
Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neerven UQP ISBN: 978 0 7022 5321 8 Reviewed by Christine Regan In Heat and Light Ellen Van Neerven tells us stories exploring ancestry and identity and the experiences particularly of Aboriginal women and girls in small Australian towns or dwelling on the metaphorical fringes of Brisbane and the […]
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Ali Cobby Eckermann in conversation with Jaydeep Sarangi

April 12, 2015
Writer, Ali Cobby Eckermann was born in 1963 at Brighton, Adelaide, on Kaurna Country, however, she grew up on Ngadjuri Country. She has travelled extensively, living most of her life on Arrernte, Jawoyn and Larrakia country in the Northern Territory. When she was 34, Eckermann met her birth mother Audrey, and learnt that her birth […]
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Lyndhurst by Graham Akhurst

October 18, 2014
Graham Akhurst is currently in his last semester of a Bachelor of Creative Arts in writing at the University of Queensland. Prior to this he completed an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts where he studied music, and wrote and co-created several performances that were held at QPAC. […]
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Lionel Fogarty

June 13, 2013
Born on Wakka Wakka land at Barambah, which is now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve,  Lionel Fogarty has travelled nationally and internationally presenting and performing his work. Since the seventies Lionel has been a prominent activist, poet writer and artist; a Murri spokesperson for Indigenous Rights in Australia and overseas.  His poetry art work and […]
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