Summary
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 monumen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589756 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589758 |
| Author: | Lisa Bellear |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 100 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Series: | UWAP Poetry |
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Lisa Bellear
Lisa Bellear, Goernpil woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), Queensland, at her Reconciliation – (dash) Bar Humbug! photographic exhibition, Bunjilaka, Museum Victoria, 2002. (Photographer unknown.) Courtesy of the Lisa Bellear Estate and the Koori Heritage Trust.
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