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Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks : Ceremonial Listening to Plants
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 35-50)'Walking through the Australian bush is a walk through a living library. From the moment the Ancestors moved through Country, creating all the sentient beings, we can still see today, and those that we can’t, Australian plants and trees have held both physical and psychic, tangible and sacred knowledges. This chapter explores the possible portals of access that are opened to hearing the stories and languages of Australian plants and trees when shared by Aboriginal Australian peoples through the form of the picturebook. Such contemporary Australian books weave with ancient ways of knowing to create nurturing spaces for all readers to see, touch, smell, hold and taste the world around them. Through their own forms of Story and Language, plants and trees give insight into medicines, tools and food, as well as kinship, seasons and ceremony. When woven with picturebook modalities, they encourage embodied relationships with non-human and more-than-human elements of Country.' (Publication abstract)
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Fire Was in the Reptile’s Mouth : Towards a Transcultural Ecological Poetics
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes , vol. 7 no. 1 2016; 'This paper compares two creation narratives from indigenous peoples on either side of the Pacific Ocean, the relationships between which catalyse the theorisation of a transcultural approach to ecological poetics. The comparison of these narratives reveals important, rhizomatic similarities, and also unmistakable regional differences, concerning the origins of language and culture in Yanomami (Venezuela) and MakMak (Australia) communities. Concomitant with the centrality of indigenous thought in this theorisation of ecopoetics is the decentrality of human-only conceptions of poetics. Accordingly, the paper considers non-semantic forms of poetics such as birdsong in order to de-centre classically Western, humanist conceptions of language and ecology.' (Publication abstract) -
Image of Publication Peer Reviewed Full Content Available Bookmark and Share More Information about This Publication Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland [Book Review]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , December vol. 38 no. 2014; (p. 192)
— Review of Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose -
Decade-Old Book Gets a Makeover
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 7 September no. 509 2011; (p. 61)
— Review of Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , June no. 229 2003; (p. 16)
— Review of Into the No Zone 2003 selected work poetry ; Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose ; Jesus in Kashmir : poems 2003 selected work poetry
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You Can Hear the Wind Talk
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 2003; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , June no. 229 2003; (p. 16)
— Review of Into the No Zone 2003 selected work poetry ; Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose ; Jesus in Kashmir : poems 2003 selected work poetry -
Decade-Old Book Gets a Makeover
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 7 September no. 509 2011; (p. 61)
— Review of Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose -
Image of Publication Peer Reviewed Full Content Available Bookmark and Share More Information about This Publication Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland [Book Review]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , December vol. 38 no. 2014; (p. 192)
— Review of Country of the Heart : An Indigenous Australian Homeland 2002 single work oral history prose -
Book Focuses on the MakMak
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 23 April no. 299 2003; (p. 30) -
Croc Songs and Dragonflies Join Life's Rhythm Up North
2003
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 May 2003; (p. 6) -
Fire Was in the Reptile’s Mouth : Towards a Transcultural Ecological Poetics
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Landscapes , vol. 7 no. 1 2016; 'This paper compares two creation narratives from indigenous peoples on either side of the Pacific Ocean, the relationships between which catalyse the theorisation of a transcultural approach to ecological poetics. The comparison of these narratives reveals important, rhizomatic similarities, and also unmistakable regional differences, concerning the origins of language and culture in Yanomami (Venezuela) and MakMak (Australia) communities. Concomitant with the centrality of indigenous thought in this theorisation of ecopoetics is the decentrality of human-only conceptions of poetics. Accordingly, the paper considers non-semantic forms of poetics such as birdsong in order to de-centre classically Western, humanist conceptions of language and ecology.' (Publication abstract) -
Aboriginal Australian Picturebooks : Ceremonial Listening to Plants
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature : Roots and Winged Seeds 2023; (p. 35-50)'Walking through the Australian bush is a walk through a living library. From the moment the Ancestors moved through Country, creating all the sentient beings, we can still see today, and those that we can’t, Australian plants and trees have held both physical and psychic, tangible and sacred knowledges. This chapter explores the possible portals of access that are opened to hearing the stories and languages of Australian plants and trees when shared by Aboriginal Australian peoples through the form of the picturebook. Such contemporary Australian books weave with ancient ways of knowing to create nurturing spaces for all readers to see, touch, smell, hold and taste the world around them. Through their own forms of Story and Language, plants and trees give insight into medicines, tools and food, as well as kinship, seasons and ceremony. When woven with picturebook modalities, they encourage embodied relationships with non-human and more-than-human elements of Country.' (Publication abstract)
- Aboriginal women
- Aboriginal relationship with the land
- Fire
- Aboriginal culture
- Natural beauty
- Place names
- Creation myths & beliefs
- Aboriginal Dreamtime
- Controlled fires
- Environmental conservation
- Perceptions of nature
- Personal names
- Totemism
- Bush food
- Unity with nature
- Family history
- Aboriginality
- Introduced species
- Introduced plants
- Fog Bay - Finniss River area, Top End, Northern Territory,
- Darwin area, Northern Territory,