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Notes
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Dedication: For the Zonta Club of Brisbane in Air of Women and Children in the Indigenous Communities of Queensland
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This work is divided into four sections: The Visionary; The Custodians; The Dispossessed; and, Reconciliation.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Brisbane,
Queensland,:Ibis Editions Australien
, 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Foreword, single work essay (p. vi)
- Blue Lakei"the last time I was here", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Then...and Tomorrow the Poeti"drew tears silently slide and cluster", single work poetry (p. 4-5)
- The Legend of the Paperbark Treei"this is the place where an island was born", single work poetry (p. 6-8)
- Oodgerooi"I first read your poems at night", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Again-againi"you gave your wake up words to the people with no dreaming", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
- Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Peoplei"I was a white child", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- To Oodgerooi"when I hoped to understand the", single work poetry (p. 14)
- I hear the Songsi"I have not your dreaming, oodgeroo", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Ngurrang Waianya (small mother)i"little shining star", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- The knowledgei"brown-skinned straddie", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Smokei"Oodgeroo/woman/girl", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Gifts for gubbasi"you joked about the nickname nailed on us", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Class shadowsi"named shadow sister by our noblest", single work poetry (p. 24)
- For Oodgerooi"your elders saw beyond themselves", single work poetry (p. 25)
- To Kath Walker Oodgeroo, I did not Know Youi"We grew up in each other's arms", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Near Magnificent and Mitchell Riversi"near magnificent and", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Timeless Lifei"through the mists of timeless life", single work poetry (p. 32)
- This Level Landi"the dryad in the tree", single work poetry (p. 33)
- The Caretakeri"behold! this land of burnished gold", single work poetry (p. 34)
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