| Description |
91 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Giramondo poets |
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Giramondo poets.
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| Contents |
1. (Bird song ; Australantis ; Tjukurrpa ; Love ; Kulila ; Owls ; Trance ; Abstract ; Canoe ; Seeds ; Ooldea soakage ; Amnesia ; Heartbeat ; Innermost ; Clay ; Inside my mother ; Dip ; Shadows ; Lament) |
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2. (The gunbarrel highway ; Mamu ; Shells ; Clapsticks ; Kumerangke ; Warriors at Salt Creek ; Rust ; Vengeance ; Summer ; Unearth ; Kaleidoscope ; Footprint ; Sadness ; Hindmarsh Island ; Oombulgarri ; Eyes ; Lake Eyre ; A cross) |
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3. (Tjulpu ; Love 22/06/10 ; First born ; Gunfire in spring ; I tell you true ; Full moon ; Cross road ; Monsoon ; Marry up ; The letter ; Rites ; Leaves ; Severance ; Fear ; A promise ; Pira ; Ngingali) |
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Key ;Mining ; A tragedy ; Sacrifice ; Legacy ; Eve ; Heat ; Believe ; Jacob ; Please brother! ; Nurture -- A rose -- A handful of weeds -- My mission -- Strings -- Today -- Lyre birds -- The last cuppa -- Evacuate) |
| Summary |
Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as 'Inside My Mother' and 'Lament'. There is defiance and protest in 'Clapsticks' and 'I Tell You True'. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it. Judges citation, 2013 NSW Premiers Literary Award for PoetryAli Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember yet brimming with energy and vitality qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as Inside My Mother and Lament. There is defiance and protest in Clapsticks and I Tell You True. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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Mothers -- Poetry.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Poetry.
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Poetry -- Australia.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| LC no. |
2015376833 |
| ISBN |
9781922146885 |
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