AustLit logo
NLA image of person
Lionel Fogarty Lionel Fogarty i(A21618 works by) (a.k.a. Lionel George Fogarty; Lionel G. Fogarty; Lionel G. Brown Lacey Yock Fogarty)
Also writes as: Lionel Lacey
Born: Established: 1958 Barambah, Kilkivan area, Kingaroy - Murgon - Kilkivan - Woolooga area, Central West Queensland, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 Appearance Shadows Lionel Fogarty , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: A Line in the Sand 2023;
1 6 y separately published work icon Harvest Lingo Lionel Fogarty , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2022 26609737 2022 selected work poetry

'Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australia’s foremost poets, and this collection displays all of the urgency, energy and linguistic audacity for which Fogarty is known.

'At the centre of the collection is a series of poems written in India. Deeply empathetic, these poems are remarkable for the connections they draw between the social problems the poet encounters in this country poverty, class division, corruption and those he sees in contemporary Australia, besetting his own people.

'Other poems tell of encounters between people and between cultures, address historical and cultural issues and political events, and pay tribute to important Indigenous figures. There are intensely felt lyrics of personal experience, and poems which contemplate Fogarty’s own position as a poet and an activist, speaking with and for his community.

'Fogarty’s poems are bold and fierce, at times challenging and confronting, moved by strong rhythms and a remarkable freedom with language. They are an expression of the ‘harvest lingo’ which gives the collection its title.' (Publication summary)

1 All Markets Are All Universes Lionel Fogarty , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 4)
1 Gumera Marrow Tender Bones Gomeri i "One day made you Hundred years", Lionel Fogarty , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 2 2021-2022; (p. 22)
1 Buggeiri Dugai No Speak Us Read If,like ..... i "No don’t want ya to speak sing our languages", Lionel Fogarty , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 2 2021-2022; (p. 21)
1 Comprise a Committee Cynicism i "Reparative justice is but a scheme", Lionel Fogarty , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 2 2021-2022; (p. 20)
1 Young People Never Die i "Young people never die.", Lionel Fogarty , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , February 2021; (p. 30)
1 Untitled i "Torquing about debt is always exshiting but", Lionel Fogarty , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 47)
1 3 y separately published work icon Lionel Fogarty : Selected Poems 1980-2017 Lionel Fogarty , Philip Morrissey (editor), Tyne Daile Sumner (editor), Prahran : Re.Press , 2017 11581168 2017 selected work poetry
1 Yo I Am the Man i "Who gave you woman", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Written Land : A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook
1 See Sea Over Dews in Cenduna i "Garment government town sea dunes sea front loot.", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Written Land : A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook
1 Never Worked i "He wave his fingers saying he’s a worker", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Written Land : A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook
1 Conquer Slaughter’s i "have to =====$$", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Written Land : A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook
1 1 No Cites like the Cites Hum In i "This cities are builted on times land.", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Written Land : A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook
1 y separately published work icon Written Land : A Lionel Fogarty Chapbook Lionel Fogarty , Matthew Hall , 9774263 2016 selected work poetry
1 Head Keeper Futures Corridor’s Bay i "Every sand rushes the beaches are first people’s", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry , May 2016; (p. 158)
1 Koala Trees Turn Her Borobi i "She was pretty young Borobi being put in the tree by her human", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Queensland 2016;
1 Jealousy of the Undertow/Tombstone i "The need to recall the journey", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Queensland 2016; Australian Book Review , January-February no. 388 2017; (p. 55)
1 He Had a Dream of Times i "They swing on real dreams of freedom.", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Queensland 2016;
1 Between Places i "Beyond a man's face stands a skilful", Lionel Fogarty , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Queensland 2016;
X