Holocaust Island
first nations classics
$19.20
- Paperback
108 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2023
Summary
Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.
Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon’s poems address contemporary and controversial issues - from Black deaths in custody to the struggles of single mothers - and are as relevant today as when his book was first published…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702266034 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702266035 |
| Author: | Graeme Dixon, Ali Cobby Eckermann |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 108 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 94g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 11mm |
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About The Author
Graeme Dixon
Graeme Dixon (1955-2010) was born in Perth, Western Australia. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he lived in a Salvation Army Boys Home, before being expelled from school. He was in and out of reformatories and at sixteen ended up in Fremantle Prison where is spent most of the next nine years. His first poetry collection, Holocaust Island, was written in prison and was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989.
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