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Whisper songs / Tony Birch.
Publication details: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2021.Description: xiii, 81 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780702263279
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Literature and stories - Poetry
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Literature and stories - Authors - Poetry
- Families -- Poetry
- Violence
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Memory -- Poetry
- Loss (Psychology)
- Aboriginal Australian poetry
- Australian poetry -- 21st century
- Australia
- Australian
- A821.4 23
- PR9619.4.B538 W45 2021
Contents:
Summary: "In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive, including documents from his own family history, highlighting forcefully the ways in which the personal is also intensely political. Divided into three sections - Blood, Skin and Water - the poems in Whisper Songs address themes of loss (of people and place), the legacies of colonial history and violence, and the relationships between Country and memory. Whisper Songs reveals Birch at his lyrical and intimate best." - Publisher description.
Blood -- Skin -- Water.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 821.4 BIR | Available | 063095 |
Total reserves: 0
Blood -- Skin -- Water.
"In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive, including documents from his own family history, highlighting forcefully the ways in which the personal is also intensely political. Divided into three sections - Blood, Skin and Water - the poems in Whisper Songs address themes of loss (of people and place), the legacies of colonial history and violence, and the relationships between Country and memory. Whisper Songs reveals Birch at his lyrical and intimate best." - Publisher description.
