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y separately published work icon My People : A Kath Walker Collection selected work   poetry   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 My People : A Kath Walker Collection
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    • Milton, Milton - Toowong area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Jacaranda Press , 1970 .
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      Extent: 96p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1972 , 1976 , 1978
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: Dedicated to the Brisbane Aboriginal and Island Council, whose policy is self-determination
      ISBN: 701603569
    • Brisbane, Queensland,: Jacaranda Press , 1981 .
      Extent: 96p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1985 , 1988 , 1986 , 1989
      Note/s:
      • This revised second edition contains all of the items of the first edition except for the essay (paper) 'Integration and Queensland Society'. It includes a biography (p. 96) and a new contribution listed below:
      • Dedication: Dedicated to the many people, both black and white, who are fighting for a Makarrata (Aboriginal land treaty)
      • Previously ed. : Milton, Qld: Jacaranda 1970.
      ISBN: 0701614498
    • Milton, Milton - Toowong area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: John Wiley and Sons , 2007 .
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      Extent: viii, 112p.
      Edition info: 4th ed.
      Note/s:
      • Previous edition (3rd) published by Jacaranda Press, 1990, and this was the first edition to bear the name Oodgeroo. The first two editions were published under the name Kath Walker.
      • Dedication: Dedicated to my son Kabul of the tribe Noonuccal, Custodian of the land Minjerribah (Vivian Charles Walker)
      ISBN: 9780731407408 (pbk.), 0731407407 (pbk.)
    • Milton, Milton - Toowong area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: John Wiley and Sons , 2020 .
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      Extent: 131p.p.
      Edition info: 5th edition
      Note/s:
      • Published October 2020.
      • Dedication: Dedicated to my son Kabul of the tribe Noonuccal, Custodian of the land Minjerribah (Vivian Charles Walker)
      ISBN: 9780730391081 (pbk), 9780730391098 (ebk)
    • Milton, Milton - Toowong area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: Jacaranda Press , 1990 .
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      Extent: 120p.
      Edition info: 3rd ed.
      Written as: Oodgeroo
      Note/s:

      • The third edition of My People includes all the poems (but not the essays) of the two previous editions, plus nine new pieces listed below. It also includes an updated biography (pp. 118-120).

        The speech 'Custodians of the Land' (delivered when Oodgeroo received an honorary doctorate from Griffith University, Brisbane) includes Judith Wright's poem 'Two Dreamtimes (For Kath Walker)', pp. 109-112.

        Unlike the first two editions, this edition is not illustrated.

      • Dedication: Dedicated to my son Kabul of the tribe Noonuccal, Custodian of the land Minjerribah (Vivian Charles Walker)
      ISBN: 0701626496
Alternative title: The Dawn Is at Hand : Selected Poems
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Marion Boyars ,       1992 .
      Extent: 144p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: dedicated to the many people, both black and white, who are fighting for a Makarrata (Aboriginal land treaty) and to my son Kabul of the tribe Noonuccal, Custodian of the land Minjerribah (Vivian Charles Walker)
      • This edition includes all the poems of the previous editions, and also a biography. It does not include essays.
      • Introduction by Australian composer Malcolm Williamson, Master of the Queen's Music who set Oodgeroo's poetry as a choral symphony under the title The Dawn is at Hand for the official celebrations of the Australian bicentenary.
      • Note on title page verso - 'First published in Australia for the Australian market only in 1970 by Jacaranda Press under the title My People'.
      ISBN: 0714529214
Alternative title: My People. La mia gente
Language: Italian
    • Milan,
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      Italy,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Mimesis ,       2022 .
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      Extent: 348p.p.
      Note/s:

      • This volume also includes the text of Alexis Wright's 2020 Fryer Lecture, 'What Would Oodgeroo Do?'

        ('Oltre alla traduzione italiana integrale, questa edizione a cura di Margherita Zanoletti offre un’introduzione contestuale e testuale e un testo inedito in italiano della scrittrice indigena Alexis Wright.')

      ISBN: 9788857576763
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