| Description |
1 online resource (80 pages) |
| Contents |
Nature; Harmony; Morning; Warning; Ambush; Silence; Shadow; Birds; Ochre; Wander; Dream; Shelter; Wash; Sedge; Gifts; Intrude; Smoke; Bunyip; Shack; Jack; Dark; Hunger; Beast; Food; Friends; Merger; Oasis; Unseen; Solace; Beauty; Tempo; Visitor; Signs; Whispers; Moon; Vision; Murmur; Clouds; Shame; Ritual; Promise; Depart; Spring; Caution; Kuman; Falling; Mud; Green; Fortune; Detour; Loose; Memory; Blur; Shy; Broken; Torn; Hate; Scheme; Muddle; Cave; Instinct; Message; Cursed; Jury; Misread; Spear; Feathers; Empty; Sunset; about the author; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| Summary |
Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization |
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Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2013 |
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Deadly Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Literature, 2012 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Fiction
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Poetry
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POETRY -- Australian & Oceanian.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
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Colonization
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Colonization -- Fiction
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South Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
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Australia -- Colonization -- Poetry
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South Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Poetry
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| Subject |
Australia
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South Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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History
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Novels in verse
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Poetry
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Novels in verse.
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Romans en vers.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781921248641 |
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1921248645 |
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9781921248665 |
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1921248661 |
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