Ruby Moonlight
$28.06
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2012
Summary
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921248511 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921248513 |
| Author: | Ali Cobby Eckermann |
| Publisher: | Magabala Books |
| Imprint: | Magabala Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 146mm x 198mm |
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Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet and artist from South Australia whose work has been published and celebrated around the world. Her poetry collections include little bit long time and the award-winning collection Inside My Mother. Her verse novels are His Father s Eyes and Ruby Moonlight, which won the inaugural black&write! Indigenous fellowship, the Kenneth Slessor Prize, a Deadly Award and was named the NSW Premier s Literary Award Book of the Year. In 2013 Ali toured Ireland as Australia s Poetry Ambassador, and in 2017 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University.
She describes herself as a dreamer, a gardener, with deep respect for her journey thus far.
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