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'Phillip Hall writes from the edge: the edge of language; the edge of mental illness; and, from the perspective of a non-Indigenous poet and teacher standing at the edge of Indigenous culture and community carrying generosity and love alongside the ongoing trauma of dispossession. This is a volume intensely interested in language and the self-care required in precarious lives.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Author's note:
Singing with the
Yanyawa, Marra, Gudanji & Garrwa
of
Borroloola,
in the Northern Territory's
Gulf of Carpentaria
Dedication:
And in loving memory of
Nana Miller (nee Raggett):
proud Custodian of Gudanji Culture,
Traditional Owner of McArthur River Station,
Jungkayi for Jayipa (Catfish Hole),
my teacher -
there is so much Sorry Business
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Five Poets : Five Worlds
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 78 no. 3 2019; (p. 188-193)
— Review of João 2018 selected work poetry ; Warlines 2018 selected work poetry ; Fume 2018 selected work poetry ; Interval 2018 selected work poetry ; The Hijab Files 2018 selected work poetry -
Judith Bishop Reviews Phillip Hall’s Fume
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry -
Robert Wood Reviews Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , June 2018;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry -
Inhaling Trauma
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry'In his introduction to Fume, a collection of poetry primarily written on Country in Borroloola, Phillip Hall describes his struggle to accept the challenge of Gudanji elder Nana Miller ‘to embrace enough humility to accept that not all complications were easily navigable’ (18). Hall presents himself as having been at times ‘a missionary and a misfit’ (16) and an idealist (15); ‘interactions with spirits and magic’ offer ‘a potent challenge to my secular humanism’ (96), and his poem ‘Discharge’ seems to bluntly lay out some (old) underlying drives...' (Introduction)
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Feeling Place : Slow-time on Country
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2018;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry
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To Sing the Song Back to Our Land, Fume, Phillip Hall
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 15 2018;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry -
Feeling Place : Slow-time on Country
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2018;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry -
Inhaling Trauma
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry'In his introduction to Fume, a collection of poetry primarily written on Country in Borroloola, Phillip Hall describes his struggle to accept the challenge of Gudanji elder Nana Miller ‘to embrace enough humility to accept that not all complications were easily navigable’ (18). Hall presents himself as having been at times ‘a missionary and a misfit’ (16) and an idealist (15); ‘interactions with spirits and magic’ offer ‘a potent challenge to my secular humanism’ (96), and his poem ‘Discharge’ seems to bluntly lay out some (old) underlying drives...' (Introduction)
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Judith Bishop Reviews Phillip Hall’s Fume
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;
— Review of Fume 2018 selected work poetry -
Five Poets : Five Worlds
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 78 no. 3 2019; (p. 188-193)
— Review of João 2018 selected work poetry ; Warlines 2018 selected work poetry ; Fume 2018 selected work poetry ; Interval 2018 selected work poetry ; The Hijab Files 2018 selected work poetry -
Duo's inside Story on the Write Stuff
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: NT News , 31 August 2015; (p. 4) 'Authors Phillip Hall and Ktima Heathcote will come out from their all-consuming residency at the Botanic Gardens to speak with the public during a morning of readings...'