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'I'll try and make things right though writing and poetry I just might but we'll all have to pull together. Never mind how far apart someone somewhere gotta make a start.' (Source: Back cover)
Notes
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Dedication: Alf Taylor would like to dedicate this book of poetry to his mother and father, his brother Anthony (deceased) and sisters Madeline and Phyllis (both deceased)...cont'd
Contents
- Black Skini"Warm sun on black skin", single work poetry (p. 1)
- You Arei"You are a", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Sunlighti"Standing", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Moment of Paradisei"Stolen glances", single work poetry (p. 4)
- The Hiti"Cascade", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Sleepless Nightsi"Sleepless nights", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Lovei"Let", single work poetry (p. 7)
- A Love Affairi"Come on in", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Shei"She was", single work poetry (p. 9)
- The Petali"Softly", single work poetry (p. 10)
- The Flatsi"She left", single work poetry (p. 11)
- A Dreami"Shrouded", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Bring Backi"Gone is the rainbow", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Fitzroy Bedi"I see them", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Black Childi"Little black child", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- Pension Dayi"Good mother all week", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Towni"Green leaves on trees,", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Alone in a Celli"Here I sit, in this darkened cell", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Kimberleyi"In my flat", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Wordsi"The embers", single work poetry (p. 23)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Related Works
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Rimfire : Poetry from Aboriginal Australia
Broome
:
Magabala Books
,
2000
Z396815
2000
selected work
poetry
'Rimfire is the powerful work of three Indigenous poets, who speak of the common experience of Aboriginal people as well as the universal themes of love, life and loss. Rising from the black underbelly of a country that has systematically dispossessed the Indigenous, these poems echo with the call for justice, inclusion and equality.' (Publisher's note, 2000 edition)
Works about this Work
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Literature as Protest and Solace : The Verse of Alf Taylor
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 16 2015; (p. 25-33)'Although Australian indigenous poetry is often overtly polemical and politically committed, any reading which analyzes it as mere propaganda is too narrow to do it justice. By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural milieu of the author, my essay aims to show the thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. Indigenous poets have, on the one hand, undertaken the responsibility to strive for social and political equality and foster within their communities the very important concept that indigenous peoples can survive only as a community and a nation (McGuiness). On the other hand, they have produced powerful self-revelatory accounts of their own mental and emotional interior, which urges us to see their careers in a perspective much wider than that of social chroniclers and rebels.' (Publication abstract)
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August/September vol. 8 no. 7 1993; (p. 8)
— Review of The Life of a Pet Dog 1992 selected work poetry ; Sirocco Days 1993 selected work poetry ; Once Father and God 1992 selected work poetry ; Singer Songwriter 1992 selected work poetry
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Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August/September vol. 8 no. 7 1993; (p. 8)
— Review of The Life of a Pet Dog 1992 selected work poetry ; Sirocco Days 1993 selected work poetry ; Once Father and God 1992 selected work poetry ; Singer Songwriter 1992 selected work poetry -
Literature as Protest and Solace : The Verse of Alf Taylor
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 16 2015; (p. 25-33)'Although Australian indigenous poetry is often overtly polemical and politically committed, any reading which analyzes it as mere propaganda is too narrow to do it justice. By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural milieu of the author, my essay aims to show the thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. Indigenous poets have, on the one hand, undertaken the responsibility to strive for social and political equality and foster within their communities the very important concept that indigenous peoples can survive only as a community and a nation (McGuiness). On the other hand, they have produced powerful self-revelatory accounts of their own mental and emotional interior, which urges us to see their careers in a perspective much wider than that of social chroniclers and rebels.' (Publication abstract)
