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'Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) is the most recent collection from Australia’s foremost experimental and political poet and one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers, Lionel G. Fogarty.' (Source: Publisher's website)
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Murgon Brawl Cherbourg Brawlsi"They out there, not hidden",
single work
poetry
(p. 9-10)
Note: Epigraph: (To Kurt & Nanny Fisher, Sunday 8.39pm 2011/01/09)
- "Daran" "Daran" Forbiddeni"see, in golden nightmares the eternal", single work poetry (p. 11-12)
- Conservatives Sellsi"Here is the Modern humourous", single work poetry (p. 13-15)
- Bam Gayandii"Jealous greed's in lot a blacks' houses", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- "Here Comes the Tranquility Incarnation..."i"Here comes the tranquility incarnation", single work poetry (p. 18-19)
- Related-obeying-Aboriginesi"Direction will come with blackfella action", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Partner to What Termsi"land is the housing", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- Lucky Country Sad Loose Societyi"Australia not own by anyone?", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Maps Gods to Whosei"city of life, rich is poorer of life", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Country's Sub's No Suss Townsi"Mission bleeds we are.", single work poetry (p. 26)
- 1967 Encouraged the Right Vote Now?i"Referendum who will vote for see -", single work poetry (p. 27)
- "The Fat Funny Ducking Took My Woman..."i"The fat funny ducking took my woman and made her fat again", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Amplifier Aims of Circlei"Enticing as a educate civilised", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Immemorial Conservativei"Rioted by the rights, Do it blacks insights into compelling", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Cut an Pastei"Sitting here a-witting time to be mine", single work poetry (p. 32-33)
- A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-Ai"A-Stands for have a day hey no layabouts", single work poetry (p. 34)
- Swift Terrorlessi"Pre tend my mobs bobs in dobs", single work poetry (p. 35-36)
- Foreign Admirationi"Those was comparing supering pains the same", single work poetry (p. 37-38)
- Literary Embarrassedi"Man's origin became the dust epitome", single work poetry (p. 39)
- Perverse Approachesi"(Do always) YABURUHMA what the (eagle) MIBAYN (earth)", single work poetry (p. 40-41)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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“Mabo Decision Was …” : Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;'Thirty years after it was decided, the Mabo vs. Queensland case is remembered as a singularly defining landmark in the Aboriginal land rights movement and Australian political history. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs posited in 1995 that we live in a “post-Mabo Australia” of “unsettlement,” a “moment of decolonization, [where] what is 'ours' is also potentially, or even always already, 'theirs’” (171-172). In this article, I reconsider Mabo’s historical legacy through the writings of Lionel Fogarty, who has kinship connections to Wakka Wakka, Yoogum, and Mununjali peoples. Fogarty is rarely studied in the Mabo turn in Australian literature, perhaps in the view that his poetry is located within the ‘protest poetry’ of a pre-Mabo Australia. Born more than a decade before the 1967 referendum, Fogarty writes continuously about land rights through a poetic oeuvre spanning forty years, often from the perspective of his close personal involvement in activism. Fogarty unsettles the commemorative ethos with which Mabo is remembered, while inextricably tied to its memory. Fogarty’s resistance to monumentalisation can also be read as a guide to reading the poet’s own literary achievements in the decades before and after Mabo. By disrupting the commemorative impulse at the heart of Mabo, Fogarty renews the eventfulness and potential of another Mabo (and perhaps, another Fogarty): one that is always in-progress or unsettled, ‘a courtesy sustained’ and a ‘wave to turn.’' (Publication abstract)
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Phillip Hall Reviews George Dyungayan’s Bulu Line: A West Kimberley Song Cycle by Stuart Cooke and Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Mobo-Mobo (Future) by Lionel Fogarty
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2016;
— Review of George Dyunjgayan's Bulu Line : A West Kimberley Song Cycle Stuart Cooke (translator), 2014 selected work poetry criticism ; Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) 2014 selected work poetry poetry'In a more perfect world (where there are fewer crippling complications) Stuart Cooke’s multi layered and lyrical verse translation of a Traditional Song Cycle would probably be what most of us would like First Nations literature to look like. It is a richly collaborative project bringing together the creative energies of Traditional Owners and a non-Indigenous academic and poet. Cooke’s book is a proud celebration of Nyigina Culture and Language and makes an invaluable contribution to Cultural maintenance. ...'
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Fiona Hile Reviews Lionel Fogarty
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March no. 49.1 2015;
— Review of Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) 2014 selected work poetry poetry
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Fiona Hile Reviews Lionel Fogarty
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March no. 49.1 2015;
— Review of Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) 2014 selected work poetry poetry -
Phillip Hall Reviews George Dyungayan’s Bulu Line: A West Kimberley Song Cycle by Stuart Cooke and Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Mobo-Mobo (Future) by Lionel Fogarty
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2016;
— Review of George Dyunjgayan's Bulu Line : A West Kimberley Song Cycle Stuart Cooke (translator), 2014 selected work poetry criticism ; Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) 2014 selected work poetry poetry'In a more perfect world (where there are fewer crippling complications) Stuart Cooke’s multi layered and lyrical verse translation of a Traditional Song Cycle would probably be what most of us would like First Nations literature to look like. It is a richly collaborative project bringing together the creative energies of Traditional Owners and a non-Indigenous academic and poet. Cooke’s book is a proud celebration of Nyigina Culture and Language and makes an invaluable contribution to Cultural maintenance. ...'
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“Mabo Decision Was …” : Reading Mabo Through the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;'Thirty years after it was decided, the Mabo vs. Queensland case is remembered as a singularly defining landmark in the Aboriginal land rights movement and Australian political history. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs posited in 1995 that we live in a “post-Mabo Australia” of “unsettlement,” a “moment of decolonization, [where] what is 'ours' is also potentially, or even always already, 'theirs’” (171-172). In this article, I reconsider Mabo’s historical legacy through the writings of Lionel Fogarty, who has kinship connections to Wakka Wakka, Yoogum, and Mununjali peoples. Fogarty is rarely studied in the Mabo turn in Australian literature, perhaps in the view that his poetry is located within the ‘protest poetry’ of a pre-Mabo Australia. Born more than a decade before the 1967 referendum, Fogarty writes continuously about land rights through a poetic oeuvre spanning forty years, often from the perspective of his close personal involvement in activism. Fogarty unsettles the commemorative ethos with which Mabo is remembered, while inextricably tied to its memory. Fogarty’s resistance to monumentalisation can also be read as a guide to reading the poet’s own literary achievements in the decades before and after Mabo. By disrupting the commemorative impulse at the heart of Mabo, Fogarty renews the eventfulness and potential of another Mabo (and perhaps, another Fogarty): one that is always in-progress or unsettled, ‘a courtesy sustained’ and a ‘wave to turn.’' (Publication abstract)