Category: Political, cultural or just plain great
Dingoes, bats, red-eyed green tree frogs ...an ABC of amazing Australian creatures At last ...a unique Australian ABC book. Featuring the artwork of celebrated Queensland artist Warren Brim, ABC Dreaming introduces young children to their alphabet and the beauty of Indigenous art in a bright and fun way ...Show more
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples - as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first ...Show more
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Noel Tovey’s previous memoir, Little Black Bastard ( Hodder Headline Australia 2004, shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous Writing, Australian Human Rights Award) chronicled his extraordinary life – from a childhood lived in poverty, through to his international stage ca ...Show more
Category: Queer/ Trans*
Archer Magazine issue #13 – the FIRST NATIONS issue Archer Asks: Raquel Willis, executive editor of Out Magazine Corporate rainbow-washing: The truth behind awards and accolades My Catholic guilt: The regrets of a former youth leader Writing for catharsis: The art of reworking negativity Fami ...Show more
Category: Poetry
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is ...Show more
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A coming of age story about four boys and their lot in life. Recounted through storytelling sessions at their school over a period of five days, these boys chronicle their lives. They are at times demanding, occasionally rude, always funny and unexpectedly profound. The boys like to challenge themselves ...Show more
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Colouring the Rainbow uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family and culture, identity and respect, homophobia, transphobia, racism and decolonisation, activism, art, pe ...Show more
Category: Poetry
I also saw those spirit dogs and poetry travelled with me like rivers I didn't ever eat alone 'Goan Fish Curry' Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this luscious collection. Moving between places an ...Show more
Category: General Biography / Memoir
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
'... always remember where you're from ... 'To the Aboriginal Famililes of Mundra this saying brings either comfort or pain. To Nana Vida it is what binds the generations. To the unwilling savant Archie Corella it portends a fate too cruel to name. For Sophie Salte, whose woman's body and child's mind m ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through adoption, through juvenile detention, through poverty. He's an athlete in training, aching towards the d ...Show more
Category: First Peoples
The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countries. They are personal accounts that share knowledge, insight and emotion, each speaking of a deep connection to country and of feeling heartsick because of the harm that is being inflicted on country even today, ...Show more