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Alison Whittaker Alison Whittaker i(8637549 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Kamilaroi
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1 The Poem Alison Whittaker , Nadine Anne Hura , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Woven : First Nations Poetic Conversations from the Fair Trade Project 2024;
1 Introduction Steven Alison Whittaker , Lindsay Ross , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Nangamay Dream Mana Gather Djurali Grow : First Nations Australia LGBTQIA Poetry 2023; (p. 17)
1 y separately published work icon Nangamay Dream Mana Gather Djurali Grow : First Nations Australia LGBTQIA Poetry Alison Whittaker (editor), Steven Ross (editor), Glebe : Blackbooks , 2023 25674013 2023 anthology poetry 'A ground-breaking collection of First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ poets, writers and storytellers published to commemorate Sydney World Pride being held on the unceded lands of the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidigal, Dharawal and Dharug Nations' 

(Publication summary)

1 Optimal Alison Whittaker , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 110)
1 The Poets Are about to Lie to You i "the poets are about to lie to you", Alison Whittaker , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 3 2022; (p. 161-162)
1 Bridge Alison Whittaker , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Unlimited Futures 2022; (p. 74)
1 Framework i "light emiting fibre tug grass in", Alison Whittaker , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 195)
1 Uncalled-for Program Name Generator, Um Deadly i "Has this ever happened to you? Have you worked in the settler public", Alison Whittaker , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 102 2021;
1 Guided Meditation ASMR — Your Therapist’s Intern Calms You down Roleplay — Monotonous Colonial Apocalypse Comfort ASMR #RoadTo100K i "I know obviously you’ve got stuff going on, but please get up. They don’t really pay me for this, it’s a cadetship.", Alison Whittaker , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021; Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 92)
1 Thunderbolt i "Thunderbolt worked as a stockman in the north-west New South Wales,", Alison Whittaker , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry 2020; (p. 181)
1 Introduction Alison Whittaker , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today 2020; (p. ix-xiv)
'It licks at the edges of the colonisers' language. It hems it into a workable, imperfect shape. It tears through the settlers' plantations, their arrangements of the trees and their form. It takes its restorative heat to the right flora, which release their seeds and bear down hard for the burn. It loosens and enriches nutrients from the top of the ecology. It brings them down to bring other things up. Fire Front, a thin and precise incision into the colonial Australian imagination, is ready when the wind changes. When the wind changes, everything that is burning becomes the front. Big. Bigger and more powerful than we could have ever envisioned.' (Introduction) 
 
1 'I Have Never Stopped' : Aileen Moreton-Robinson on 20 Years of Talkin' Up to the White Woman Alison Whittaker , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 August 2020;

'When yarning with distinguished professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, the Goenpul author of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman, your first priority is to keep up. Moreton-Robinson has a famously-sharp intellect, and is never not observing and evaluating social systems.' 

1 So White. So What. Alison Whittaker , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 79 no. 1 2020;

'Somewhere before White Fragility became the lingo du jour of anti-racism workshops, white people stopped telling me out loud that they were ‘one of the good ones’. They chuckled and said ‘Oh, I’m so white’. They offered me a conspiring wink. It’s not as suave when I reciprocate. I can only blink, or hold my hand over one eye like an optometrist, testing just what it is I’m meant to be seeing.' (Introduction)

1 10 y separately published work icon Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today Alison Whittaker (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18673559 2020 anthology poetry essay

'This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia’s most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Sam Wagan Watson, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Archie Roach and Alexis Wright.

'Divided into five thematic sections, each one is introduced by an essay from a leading Aboriginal writer and thinker — Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Chelsea Bond, Evelyn Araluen and Steven Oliver — who reflects on the power of First Nations poetry with their own original contribution. This incredible book is a testament to the renaissance of First Nations poetry happening in Australia right now.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Leah Purcell : The Drover’s Wife Alison Whittaker , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25-31 January 2020;

— Review of The Drover's Wife : The Legend of Molly Johnson Leah Purcell , 2019 single work novel

'You’d be forgiven for thinking that this review is some years late.

'As a playscript, Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife was given its rounds of critical acclaim and awards attention across 2016-17, taking out the Victorian Prize for Literature and the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year, among other ribbons. In this new iteration, titled The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Purcell novelises her brutal and critical reply to Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story, in which an unnamed woman struggles with a snake and four children. Country is the enemy, and the hardened woman a virtue.' (Publication summary)

1 Beneviolence Alison Whittaker , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Love Is Strong as Death 2019;
1 In Response to Kaitlen Wellington's 'It's About Time' i "What does it mean to resist in this colony? For so long in my so far very", Alison Whittaker , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 101)
1 Frontiers Alison Whittaker , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 414 2019; (p. 30)

— Review of The Old Lie Claire G. Coleman , 2019 single work novel
'In The Old Lie, Claire G. Coleman has given herself a right of reply to her award-winning début novel, Terra Nullius (2017). Here, she strips away some of the racial ambiguity of the human–alien invasion allegory of that novel and leaves in its place a meaty analysis of colonisation and imperialism.' 

 (Introduction)

1 Colonial Horror, Blak Mediocrity and Mumblecore : A Conversation Alison Whittaker , Nayuka Gorrie , 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 43 2019; (p. 78-80)
In February 2019, Nayuka Gorrie and Alison Whittaker were invited to speak at the 2019 Stella Prize Longlist Party in so-called Sydney. The event was a celebration of women’s writing, a chance to reflect on the stories and women that inspire and shape our world, as well as the announcement of the 2019 Stella Prize longlist. This conversation was a result of issues raised in both their speeches from the night.
1 Foreword Alison Whittaker , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Solid Air : Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word 2019; (p. xv)
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