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Title The great forgetting / poems by Geoff Page ; illustrations by Pooaraar
Published Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996

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 W'PONDS  827.03 P1325 A21/G  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Author's note -- Illustrator's note -- Part I: Justice Blackburn sails with Cook -- The relatives; Colonial view -- The treaty -- Dispatch -- The long agistment -- Two letters -- Other voices -- The phrenologist; --The squatters thesaurus -- Her Majestys Queensland Native Police -- The sword -- Breast plates -- The tour; Toolbillibam and Ogilvie -- J. B. Gribble, missionary -- The extra panel -- The opening of Parliament House -- Sixpence -- A classic text -- Decalogue in double voice -- The double dreaming -- Specimen -- Jimmy James -- Ballad for Joseph Hartmann -- Armidale Tableau -- The Tindale map -- The problem -- The philosophical remark -- The transcript -- Cuisine -- Gallery A -- Yuendumu doors -- The parallels -- From Mengler Hill -- Kokoda corrective -- Court report -- The centre -- Part II: Bandjalang -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements
Summary Collection of poems by Geoff Page with accompanying illustrations from Pooaraar (Bevan B Hayward); theme is the interaction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over the past 200 years
Notes " ... published by the Aboriginal Studies Press for the Aboriginal Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies" --T.p. verso
Published by Aboriginal Studies Press in association with National Museum of Australia, 1996
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library
Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Poetry.
Australian poetry -- 20th century.
Australian poetry.
Poetry -- Australia.
SUBJECT 880-ra
Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001678
Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001678
Genre/Form Poetry.
Author Hayward, Bevan (Pooaraar), 1939-
LC no. 97211207
ISBN 0855752904