y Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012 2012
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Abstract

The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons. [From the publisher's website]

Notes

  • Dedication: For my Kami who disappeared in 1976 and for all our mob who died innocent bravein true spirit.
  • A novel in verse, a series of interconnected poems.

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Works about this Work

Huge Power in Sparse Narratives Susan Wyndham , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 May 2013;
Indigenous Writing Project Nic Murray , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 9 May no. 263 2012;
Reflections Rachel Scollay , 2012 single work biography
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 May no. 526 2012;
Well Read Katharine England , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 May 2012;
— Review of Karrawirra Parri : Walking the Torrens from Source to Sea Mike Ladd 2012 single work prose ; Thirty Days' Notice Cath Kenneally 2012 selected work poetry ; Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 Ali Cobby Eckermann 2012 single work novel ;
Struggles of Life and Death Michael Farrell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 November 2012;
— Review of Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 Ali Cobby Eckermann 2012 single work novel ; Looking out from Bashan: The Republic of Og Mark Reid 2012 selected work poetry ;
Poetry Deborah McPherson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 47 no. 2 2012;
— Review of Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 Ali Cobby Eckermann 2012 single work novel ;
Struggles of Life and Death Michael Farrell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 November 2012;
— Review of Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 Ali Cobby Eckermann 2012 single work novel ; Looking out from Bashan: The Republic of Og Mark Reid 2012 selected work poetry ;
Well Read Katharine England , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 May 2012;
— Review of Karrawirra Parri : Walking the Torrens from Source to Sea Mike Ladd 2012 single work prose ; Thirty Days' Notice Cath Kenneally 2012 selected work poetry ; Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 Ali Cobby Eckermann 2012 single work novel ;
Huge Power in Sparse Narratives Susan Wyndham , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 May 2013;
Reflections Rachel Scollay , 2012 single work biography
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 May no. 526 2012;
Indigenous Writing Project Nic Murray , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 9 May no. 263 2012;
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Subjects:
  • Colonisation of Australia
  • Aboriginal-White relations
Settings:
  • Mid North South Australia
  • 1880-1889