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Domestic single work   poetry   "The great need in dealing with the girls"
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Domestic
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  • Epigraph:

    The stories of Aboriginal women domestic servants cannot be told enough. They illuminate a deeply-rooted racist facet of Australia’s history. They tell of the trials tribulations and triumphs amidst the backdrop of oppression.

    – Jackie Huggins, White Apron, Black Hands , 1994

  • Epigraph:

    Girls of tender age and years are torn away from their parents ... and put to service in an environment as near to slavery as it is possible to find.

    – Australian Aborigines Progressive Association, 1928

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon 20 Poets : Selected Poems, Cordite Books Series 1 & 2 Kent MacCarter (editor), Carlton South : Cordite Press , 2017 11986340 2017 anthology poetry Carlton South : Cordite Press , 2017 pg. 44-45
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today Alison Whittaker (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18673559 2020 anthology poetry essay

    'This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia’s most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Sam Wagan Watson, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Archie Roach and Alexis Wright.

    'Divided into five thematic sections, each one is introduced by an essay from a leading Aboriginal writer and thinker — Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Chelsea Bond, Evelyn Araluen and Steven Oliver — who reflects on the power of First Nations poetry with their own original contribution. This incredible book is a testament to the renaissance of First Nations poetry happening in Australia right now.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020     pg. 20-22
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