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Aboriginal Country
Aboriginal Country | Lisa Bellear
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Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples--as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first time I was struck by its power. We are on Aboriginal Country in Australia. With subtle barbs she wakes us as to how the 'ownership' (via naming 'rights') of Australian public lands and monuments lauds absent white English royalty and 'intrepid god fearing discoverers'. Yet in her closing lines the poet transforms this potential for bitterness into a moment of hushed respect for country. ~Jen Jewel Brown, Editor I am one of many Australians who never met Lisa Bellear, yet was shocked by her unexpected and tragic passing. These poems are her gift! In this collection the poems resonate her warrior spirit, and the spirit of Aboriginal Country, as was her wish. ~Ali Cobby Eckermann, Nunga poet and writer
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Lauredhel
Aboriginal Country | Lisa Bellear
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How to steal babies.

Clare-Dragonfly 💔 6y
Weaponxgirl This is heart breaking! 6y
Lauredhel @Weaponxgirl so many people. So many families. 6y
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Weaponxgirl @Lauredhel I know and yet it never stops shocking me with the heartlessness when I hear about it (edited) 6y
Lauredhel @Weaponxgirl I know right? I feel like I must keep reading and thinking about it, too. Important. 6y
Weaponxgirl @Lauredhel exactly that! And the fact that variations of this happens to indigenous communities around the world makes it even worse. Like I just can‘t believe I‘m reading about this again from somewhere else 6y
Lauredhel @Weaponxgirl Australia was particularly horrendous in this regard... And "was" is not necessarily quite the right word :( 6y
Weaponxgirl @Lauredhel yea, I read this book and was just horrified 6y
Lauredhel @Weaponxgirl absolutely. For some more and varied takes try 6y
Lauredhel These are also really excellent readable stories and not grindingly awful 6y
Weaponxgirl Thank you! 6y
Lauredhel And for fantasy dystopia ya in a future / alternate Australia but infused with Aboriginal spirituality, Kwaymullina's The Tribe series starting with 6y
Clare-Dragonfly @Lauredhel Thanks for the recommendations! I loved Ashala Wolf! 6y
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Lauredhel
Aboriginal Country | Lisa Bellear
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Starting this for #readharder2019. The poet, Bellear, was a Goernpil woman of the Noonuccal people, a human rights activist, and an acclaimed photographer.

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