Dark Convicts
$23.66
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2017
Summary
It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author’s ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebears’ lives, both before transportation and afterwards, in the fledgling colony of New South Wales.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589183 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589189 |
| Author: | Judy Johnson |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Judy Johnson
Judy Johnson has published five poetry collections and a novel. Her collections have won or been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize, the West Australian Premier’s Awards and the Anne Elder award. Individual poems have been awarded the Josephine Ulrick, Val Vallis, Bruce Dawe, Tom Collins (twice), Banjo Paterson (four times) and John Shaw Neilson, among other prizes. She has shared the Newcastle Poetry Prize and Patricia Hackett award. Judy Johnson was Established Writer in Residence at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre in 2013.
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