From the Archives

Harvest Lingo Lionel Fogarty Giramondo ISBN 9781925336177 Reviewed by SAMUEL COX   Despite having been named the ‘poet laureate’ of Aboriginal literature by author Alexis Wright and the ‘greatest living poet in Australia’ by poet John Kinsella, Lionel Fogarty’s poetry, previously published by small independent presses, has remained both critically and popularly underappreciated. I count […]

mō taku tama by Vaughan Rapatahana Kilmog Press Reviewed by MARTIN EDMOND   I first encountered Vaughan Rapatahana in 2010, in the pages of brief magazine, in the days when it was being edited by Jack Ross. Rapatahana’s writing was bi-lingual ― English and te reo Māori ― typographically inventive and uncompromising in its engagement […]

Sushma Joshi is a writer and filmmaker from Nepal. She has written two books of short stories. The End of the World was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. She has a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College (USA) She is currently working […]

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen ISBN 978070226318 UQP Reviewed by TIMMAH BALL Dropbear: writing as an act of defiance  when my body is mine i will tell them with belly&bones do not touch this prefix or let you hands burn black with your unsettlement there are no metaphors here -decolonial poetics (avant gubba) Multiple modes and […]

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 oral […]

Mogwie-Idan Stories of the Land by Lionel Fogarty Vagabond Press ISBN 978-1-922181-02-2   Reviewed by TIM WRIGHT Arguments for the importance and power of Fogarty’s poetry have been made by a number of writers since the 1980s. Some prominent examples are: the forewords to Fogarty’s first two collections, written by Cheryl Buchanan and Gary Foley […]