Praiseworthy
Wright did not create a story that is simply about the Aboriginal town of Praiseworthy in Northern Australia, she created a wholly Indigenous novel.
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A Passage North
A Passage North takes its readers along on a contemplative journey through a Sri Lanka traumatised by a decades long civil war.
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“But German in particular was tricky”: An Interview with Tara June Winch
The ambition was to write about the colonization of Australia and the terrible inheritance it created. The push was to show the depth and power of language and culture as it attaches to wellbeing.
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poco.lit.‘s top 5 picks in 2022
The editors of poco.lit. share their favorite books of 2022 – five novels by incredibly talented writers from around the world
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The Yield
August Gondiwindi has been washing dishes in miserable grey London for ten years, when the death of her grandfather Albert causes her to journey home to Massacre Plains in Australia. Thus begins the story told by Tara June Winch in The Yield: a book both very beautiful and very sad.
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Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu: A Green Library Conversation (Part 2)
In the second part of the interview, Bruce Pascoe talks about ancient places, buildings and practices of Indigenous Australians that are valuable for a more sustainable future. He also introduces the publishing house Magabala Books.
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Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu: A Green Library Conversation (Part 1)
In the course of our Green Library series, we were lucky enough to chat to the acclaimed author of Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture about this earlier book and his work cultivating Aboriginal farming methods on his farm in eastern Victoria.
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The Boundary
They should adapt this book into a movie. It’s a dark, gritty crime noir waiting to be made. What makes it more than your average whodunit murder-mystery genre-novel is the context of its setting.
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Dark Emu
When I started reading Bruce Pascoe’s account of “Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture”, as Dark Emu is billed on the cover, I must confess I didn’t expect it to be page-turner. But it is.
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