Smoke Encrypted Whispers
First Nations Classics
$19.52
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2024
Summary
Now included in UQP’s First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Tony Birch, Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a stunning collection of exhilarating poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties that have become the hallmarks of this poet.
Reading this book is, as Tony Birch points out, ‘like witnessing Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime’.
Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson’s imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702268571 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0702268577 |
| Author: | Samuel Wagan Watson, Tony Birch |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Samuel Wagan Watson
Samuel Wagan Watson hails from the honourable ancestors of the Birra-Gubba, Mununjali, Germanic and Gaelic peoples. He grew up in a family of accomplished authors, political players, entrepreneurs, academics, artists and raconteurs. His collection of poetry Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight won the 1999 David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers. Since then he has written Hotel Bone (2001); Itinerant Blues (2002); Smoke Encrypted Whispers (2004), which won the 2005 New South Wales Premier’s Book of the Year and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry; The Curse Words (2011); and Love Poems and Death Threats (2014), which won the 2016 Scanlon Award for Indigenous Poetry and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. His work has been translated into seven languages, inspired various musical compositions, and has been the subject of film and television productions and visual art projects. In 2018 Samuel was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award.
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