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Lee Cataldi Lee Cataldi i(A11895 works by) (birth name: Lee Ann Sonnino) (a.k.a. Lee Ann Cataldi)
Also writes as: Lee Ann Sonnino
Born: Established: 1942 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Italian
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1 1 y separately published work icon Mourning Is Women's Business Lee Cataldi , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2022 24999534 2022 selected work poetry

'These poems were written over a period of about 20 years. Some relate to living in an Aboriginal community in WA with the last speakers of the Ngardi language.

'The India poems are the result of spending 3 months meeting poets in India on an Asia'link grant.

'The other poems relate to growing old, the great leveler.' (Publication summary)
1 Aaron i "Aaron Baajo Japangardi age", Lee Cataldi , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Live Encounters , February 2018;
1 Mallarme: Innocent Breathless Beautiful Day i "what does not fly", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 Mallarme: Sea Change i "the body complains unfortunately and I’ve read all the books", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 Michelangelo 143 i "as pieces of my life fall away", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 Michelangelo 107 i "my eyes wild for beautiful things", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 Michelangelo 27 Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 Seventy i "sometimes", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 On Breaking Things i "a clumsy movement of the sleeve sweeps", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 The Sky Is Falling in i "I drive along in my car", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 Hereafter i "you should have died much later", Lee Cataldi , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Poems 2017;
1 y separately published work icon New Poems Lee Cataldi , 2017 11333339 2017 selected work poetry
1 Tears i "your tears", Lee Cataldi , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Out of the Box : Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets 2009; (p. 164) Live Encounters , February 2018;
1 Mangoes i "I suddenly saw us", Lee Cataldi , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Out of the Box : Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets 2009; (p. 109) Live Encounters , February 2018;
1 History : Black Arm Band i "they are crying for a girl", Lee Cataldi , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 91)
1 The Opening of the Children's Centre in Balgo i "a smell of frying meat", Lee Cataldi , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 90) Live Encounters , February 2018;
1 Are We a Dying Race? or the Disappearance of Literature as We Know It Lee Cataldi , 2004 single work essay
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 85-88)
1 Aaron i "Aaron Baajo Japangardi age", Lee Cataldi , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 89)
1 Fate/Late i "when the mountain splits", Lee Cataldi , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , Fourth Quarter vol. 23 no. 4 2004; (p. 15)
1 [Review Essay] Two Sisters : Ngarta and Jukuna Lee Cataldi , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2004; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Two Sisters : Ngarta and Jukuna Ngarta Jinny Bent , Jukuna Mona Chuguna , Pat Lowe , Eirlys Richards (translator), 2004 selected work autobiography biography

'When we consider the regions where Indigenous Australians live today, we wonder how they came to be in these places. How did people from central and northern Australia, living today in Aboriginal communities or small towns, make their way from traditional lands to these settlements and how did they understand their journey? This marvellous book reveals the different trajectories of two sisters who recount their transition from a hunter-gatherer life to life in a small rural town.'  (Introduction)

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