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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 The Song Circle of Jacky : Song Twenty-Three
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Alternative title: Jacky Sings Hit Songs
Notes:
Variant title appears in Inside Black Australia
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Song Circle of Jacky and Selected Poems Colin Johnson , Melbourne : Hyland House , 1986 Z446635 1986 selected work poetry

    'The thirty-five poem sequence, The Song Circle Of Jacky, stresses the importance of traditional values and reflects bitter protest and anger at the humiliation of Aborigines in modern Australia.' (Publication summary) 

    Melbourne : Hyland House , 1986
    pg. 35-36
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    y separately published work icon Inside Black Australia : An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry Kevin Gilbert (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1988 Z372806 1988 anthology poetry (taught in 3 units)

    'Inside Black Australia', is the first anthology of Aboriginal poetry to be published, it contains 150 poems by more than 40 Aboriginal writers and poets.

    Ringwood : Penguin , 1988
    pg. 43-44
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    y separately published work icon The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature Ken L. Goodwin (editor), Alan Lawson (editor), South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1990 Z535337 1990 anthology criticism correspondence extract poetry drama biography short story prose humour satire travel

    'Poems, stories, letters and extracts from novels, plays and journals present a great variety of responses to Australia and to the art of writing. Items have been arranged into 12 groupings that reflect different ways of seeing the material of Australian writing. Each section has its own introduction. Problems are explained, theories and contexts for a wider understanding are offered. The book includes biographical guides to all authors and a full chronological table of events in the literary history of Australia.'   (Publication summary)

    South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1990
    pg. 131
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    y separately published work icon The Garden of Gethsemane : Poems from the Lost Decade Mudrooroo , South Yarra : Hyland House , 1991 Z311636 1991 selected work poetry satire South Yarra : Hyland House , 1991 pg. 103-104
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