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'Jagera is Lionel Fogarty's sixth volume of poetry.' (Source: Back cover)
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Dedication: To Mooladani (Cheryl Buchanan): to my brother Wommie (who passed on to our Dreamtime) and to Dalaipi, Dundalli and Johnnie Campbell (Kagariu).
Contents
- Molrubini""Black Aussies, the mind of the primitive".", single work poetry (p. 1)
- The Year 2057i"The year 2057, that's the year we'll get what's owed to us.", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Wahni"Wahn is our famous man he is our clever mimic", single work poetry (p. 3)
- For My Poet...Foi"This is my book silly, with grandstanding.", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Lovei"Love...walk with me", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Town Garpi"Man in chair, here a spear watch out there he was bare-faced", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Watch Outi"Are we gonna spear these solid prejudices or presume a kind of possession", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Two Weeks...1988i"So they didn't let the Bulcomen dance", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Beyond My Skini"Travelling red eyes in this bush", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Car O Boo Budjarii"Soon united with our singing, fighting you Aborigines musta been scraping sit down life", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Kirkini"Not prepared child and woman not until something worthwhile want a fuck", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Shut The Silencei"Through cracks in the silence listen to myself", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Kids Cry At Dallai"How I miss the truth (cries), how I miss the children (cries)", single work poetry (p. 13)
- White Ngul I Nareei"From me to me from we to we skin don't hide racial pride", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Justa Burraga Beewahi"500 tribes are still sacred to all humann Aborigines", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Mad Soulsi"I am a moody murri my temper as black as me.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Forgivei"Forgive me my Ngunda forgive me my Nulli Gooda", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Kippa Ringi"Verbal spirit ones at birth, vital alert abilities abirth to parents of our past", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Darei"To you, total human beginning my W.A. he fellow black", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Migloos Housei"When you go to the white houses you get to respect.", single work poetry (p. 20)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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“Mabo Decision Was …” : Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;'Thirty years after it was decided, the Mabo vs. Queensland case is remembered as a singularly defining landmark in the Aboriginal land rights movement and Australian political history. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs posited in 1995 that we live in a “post-Mabo Australia” of “unsettlement,” a “moment of decolonization, [where] what is 'ours' is also potentially, or even always already, 'theirs’” (171-172). In this article, I reconsider Mabo’s historical legacy through the writings of Lionel Fogarty, who has kinship connections to Wakka Wakka, Yoogum, and Mununjali peoples. Fogarty is rarely studied in the Mabo turn in Australian literature, perhaps in the view that his poetry is located within the ‘protest poetry’ of a pre-Mabo Australia. Born more than a decade before the 1967 referendum, Fogarty writes continuously about land rights through a poetic oeuvre spanning forty years, often from the perspective of his close personal involvement in activism. Fogarty unsettles the commemorative ethos with which Mabo is remembered, while inextricably tied to its memory. Fogarty’s resistance to monumentalisation can also be read as a guide to reading the poet’s own literary achievements in the decades before and after Mabo. By disrupting the commemorative impulse at the heart of Mabo, Fogarty renews the eventfulness and potential of another Mabo (and perhaps, another Fogarty): one that is always in-progress or unsettled, ‘a courtesy sustained’ and a ‘wave to turn.’' (Publication abstract)
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“Mabo Decision Was …” : Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;'Thirty years after it was decided, the Mabo vs. Queensland case is remembered as a singularly defining landmark in the Aboriginal land rights movement and Australian political history. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs posited in 1995 that we live in a “post-Mabo Australia” of “unsettlement,” a “moment of decolonization, [where] what is 'ours' is also potentially, or even always already, 'theirs’” (171-172). In this article, I reconsider Mabo’s historical legacy through the writings of Lionel Fogarty, who has kinship connections to Wakka Wakka, Yoogum, and Mununjali peoples. Fogarty is rarely studied in the Mabo turn in Australian literature, perhaps in the view that his poetry is located within the ‘protest poetry’ of a pre-Mabo Australia. Born more than a decade before the 1967 referendum, Fogarty writes continuously about land rights through a poetic oeuvre spanning forty years, often from the perspective of his close personal involvement in activism. Fogarty unsettles the commemorative ethos with which Mabo is remembered, while inextricably tied to its memory. Fogarty’s resistance to monumentalisation can also be read as a guide to reading the poet’s own literary achievements in the decades before and after Mabo. By disrupting the commemorative impulse at the heart of Mabo, Fogarty renews the eventfulness and potential of another Mabo (and perhaps, another Fogarty): one that is always in-progress or unsettled, ‘a courtesy sustained’ and a ‘wave to turn.’' (Publication abstract)